Vinted and bottled by Red Rock winery Healdsburg, CA
1.888.271-9463
This Malbec is grown here in California, not Argentina.
The flavor of this reserve wine lacks the depth of the Bodega de ELENA Malbec, which is my current favorite. It is not a bad wine, but if looking for a reasonably priced California red, I’d go Murphy-Goode Cabernet.
Product of Argentina.
Imported by WX Imports, Novato , CA
www.espueladelguacho.com
This low priced gaucho Malbec tastes more like the boot sweat of a gaucho.
I may have gotten a bad bottle, but this was my least favorite of
the bottles tasted by the Dude of Food.
Bodega ELENA de Mendoza 2011
Vinted and bottled by B.E.D.M. Wines
Imported by Wine Brokers Unlimited, Hayward, CA
Product of Argentina
This is the Dudes favorite Malbec yet tasted! This is the first of the bottles
that I have opened that came with a real cork. Good 1st impression. Upon
tasting this wine, I was immediately aware that the taste game had changed.
The bar had been raised. This was serious wine.
The full bodied wine smoothly drifts over your taste buds, dangling flavors of
blackberries and plums, leaving a rejoicing smile and desire for more.
There was no crazy tinny aftertaste. This was immediately my new favorite Malbec.
If it is a dollar more than the other Malbec’s in this price range, pay it!
Get this Malbec!
(side note) April 2013 issue of Bon Appetite magazine includes McCormick
gourmet selection recommending this wine also.
Grown in Mendoza, Argentina.
Imported by Cupcake Vineyards, Livermore, CA
Grown at 2,400 feet under the shadow of the snow covered Andes mountains,
this Mendoza region wine is more talk than action. The flavors mentioned on
the back of the label mention flavors of plums, raspberries and a dark chocolate
flour less cupcake. Really?
Priced in the reasonable to cheap category, but you get what you pay for in this case.
Prefer the Sensual or Robert Mondavi over this Cupcake.
Raised in Mendoza, Argentina
Imported by Redwood Creek Winery, Modesto, CA
www.redwoodcreek.com
I wanted to like this wine but felt it was just not quite as good as the Robert Mondavi PS ’11 or Sensual ’12. Not sure why. Same grape, same region, same year.
This wine’s taste was much like the Sensual and Mondavi but there was a slight shift that did not work in the Redwood Creek’s favor. The price is about the same so if I had my option, I’d choose the others.
Mendoza, Malbec Product of Argentina
Imported by CWUS Imports, Acampo, CA
Another reasonably priced, Mendoza raised wine. This tastes very similar to the Sensual 2012 used as my Malbec standard to compare the other wines.
Grapey, but not overly. OK. Not sweet. Kind of flat. Short tongue life. On the heavy side ala a Cabernet Sauvignon.
Produced & bottled by Valentin Bianchi, Mendoza, Argentina
Imported by Quintessential LLC, Napa
www.quintessentialwines.com
Reasonably priced, nicely painted and cheesily named, this Mendoza raised wine is the Malbec the Dude of Food used as my standard to compare the other wines.
Grapey, but not overly. OK. Not sweet. Kind of flat. Short tongue life. On the heavy side ala a Cabernet Sauvignon.