Going to a party and can’t decide how much to spend and not buy some junk wine that was a waste of money and made you the indirect voice of ridicule as the tasters made their statements regarding your choice? Well there is another wine to add to the list. Reasonably priced, decent tasting. The Ravenswood line is alright.
Another fine wine from the Mendoza region nestled in Argentina.
TERRAZAS de los Andes Reserva Malbec 2010
Produced and bottled by Terrazas de los Andes, Argentina
Selected grapes of the Mendoza region terraces, found a little more than 1,000 meters above sea level, make their way into this wine. The selectivity of this wine is probably why it is imported by the Moet Hennessy company.
Personally, this wine is almost as good as my still favorite Malbec, Bodega de ELENA. The Terrazas is kind of similar to the Elena, but I found it to be a touch lighter in body and flavor when landing on the tongue. The Terrazas is flowery and fruity. Perhaps the Terrazas could be imagined as a merlot version of the Elena if it were imagined as a cabernet of the same vinter.
The Terrazas is a good wine, reasonably priced and will be gone before the bottles of Mondavi that other people brought to the party.
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Vinted and bottled by Red Rock winery Healdsburg, CA
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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.
Murphy-Goode Winery Santa Rosa, CA 
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This wine posses a heavy thick leg but lands on the taste buds
gracefully, reminding the senses of a bouquet of sweet berry flavors.
The flavor doesn’t linger long on the red carpet, before it melts away,
providing opportunity for another pleasurable taste.
For under $13. this is a pretty good wine, not so much over $15. as
you have entered a region of price where premiere tastes become more
pronounced.
Murphy-Goode cab is not a bad wine, but if you like a heavier full
flavored red wine, then the Bodega ELENA de Mendoza offers a bit more
bang for a little less bucks.
This product of Spain is a tasty red table wine. 
Las Rocas USA in Hayward, CA.
This is a lighter wine than the Malbec’s and Cabernet’s.
The wine has thin streaky legs. The taste immediately
reveals sweet berries and then lightly tapers with a fume
of apricot and pear. Not heavy. Not too sweet.
Great for day sipping, happy hour or with meals. This
wine would go well with a meat, cheese and olive platter
as well as your favorite steak salad.
If you pay more than 10. it’s not a good deal. It is not the
average bottle, so be a unique wine buyer and try this.
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.
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.
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