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Luca 2021 Uco Valley Old Vine Malbec

$ 3499

Winemaker Notes

Another beautiful, well-endowed Old Vine Malbec from Argentina’s first family of Malbec. Aromatic and seductive, Luca’s 2021 Old Vine Malbec offers a cornucopia of savory scents and flavors: blackberry, cherry, cacao, and violets mingle with sensuous spice tones and rich dark chocolate. The wine’s delectable aromatics follow through in the mouth, offering layers of savory dark berry, chocolate, and intoxicating spice tones. Savory, complex, and long in the finish with a hauntingly beautiful patina of vanilla oak, this wine is a very polished, balanced Malbec. A clear standout, the 2021 Luca Old Vine Malbec may again be named “Malbec of the Year.” For optimal drinking pleasure we suggest serving Luca’s splendid 2021 Old Vine Malbec at cool room

Critical Acclaim

94pts James Suckling

A nicely saline and concentrated malbec here with plenty of peppercorn and dark spices to the black cherries. Full-bodied but still fluid on the palate with abundant, silky tannins.

93pts Wine Spectator
A complex red, with an undercurrent of river stone to the orange peel and mountain herb notes that meld with rooibos tea and Rainer cherry flavors on a richly textured frame, while a gentle nudge of fresh acidity carries everything onto the finish around fine tannins and notes of dark chocolate. Drink now through 2031.
 
92pts Robert Parker 
The 2021 Old Vine Malbec is floral, aromatic, balanced, fresh and varietal with notes of violets and small berries. It has integrated oak and a tender mouthfeel with a medium body and fine tannins.

750ml