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Search Flickinger Wine Inventory
Inventory updated: Sat, Oct 25, 2025 11:02 AM cst
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Regions: Argentina
Vintages: Between 2009 and 2009
| Producer |
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| | Argentina |
| Terrazas de Los Andes |
2009 |
Los Castanos Single Parcel Altamira Malbec  |
$67.15 |
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| WA 89? (8/2015): One of two wines produced from single-vineyard parcels, this 2009 Single Parcel Los Castaños Malbec (castaño is a chestnut tree) is from a plot of Malbec planted in 1945 in Altamira, in the Uco Valley at some 1,100 meters altitude. The grapes fermented in oak vats with pigeage and manual delestage. The wine matures for no less then 20 months in new French oak barriques. There is a sense of heat and ripeness that combined with extraction and a long aging in oak resulted in a ripe, large, heady red with aromas of esparto grass, other Mediterranean herbs, cooked prunes and cherries accented by plenty of sweet spices, even hints of coconut. The palate is full-bodied with plenty of dusty, grainy, powdery tannins that coat the inside of your mouth. The acidity is not enough to provide the needed freshness. A 2009 that still needs some more time to try to tame its tannins and come into balance, but at the same time feels somehow advanced. A bit of a question mark today. |
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