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Review: 2020 La Posta Pizzella Malbec

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Laura Catena is busy sufficient racking up award after award for her household’s flagship Catena traces that one would suppose between co-authoring among the finest books on Malbec, operating the day-to-day operations of the household enterprise, operating a medical clinic, and releasing new high-altitude variations on malbec that she would have sufficient on her plate. Nevertheless, simply to maintain issues fascinating, a number of years in the past she launched the La Posta line of wines, permitting of us to pattern single-grower, single-vineyard wines which might in any other case lack the dimensions or logistics to achieve a wider viewers and an inexpensive value level. As releases hit our native shops, we’ll be including updates to the whole line as a refresh from our initial reviews back in 2018. For now, we begin with one of many extra available choices.

Grown by the Pizzella household from Paraje Altamira in Mendoza’s Uco Valley, it is a massive and smoky monster that is available in quick and heavy with plum, oak, and spice instantly on the nostril. Giving this time within the glass mellows issues ever so barely, with clove and nutmeg shining by way of the darkish fruit. A really full and prolonged end with chewy tannins finds good firm with oak, blackberry, and a contact of pepper hanging round to ship a really traditional malbec profile. That is positively a bottle to serve with a really hearty game-based dinner, straight off of the grill.

The standard offered here’s a steal at twice its asking value, and the bottles on this vary are additionally simple to take a look at, particularly if you happen to’re a fan of the Artwork Nouveau and Artwork Deco actions of the Twenties. Which I’m.

A- / $15 / lapostavineyards.com

2020 La Posta Pizzella Malbec

$15

Score


9.0/10

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