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The serious, balanced and quite complete 2019 Caro was made with 64% Malbec and 36% Cabernet Sauvignon and produced in a classical style. It's a wine with ripeness, Mendoza sun and Bordeaux elegance and subtleness. It feels harmonious and integrated, with 14.5% alcohol and good balancing freshness. It matured in French barriques and 4,200-liter oak foudre for 14 months, which was a shorter élevage and using larger-volume containers to achieve neatly integrated oak. It's complex, clean and elegant, and the palate reveals a velvety texture with juicy fruit and round tannins. 31,400 bottles and 1,280 magnums were produced. It was bottled in October 2021. It's one of the finest vintages of Caro and should develop nicely in bottle.
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James Suckling
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The 2019 Caro is a blend of 64% Malbec and 36% Cabernet Sauvignon from Paraje Altamira and Gualtallary in the Uco Valley; it was aged in 80% new barrels. Purple in the glass. The nose presents notes of bay leaf, thyme and hints of plum, sour cherry, blackcurrant and mint accompanied by aromas from the aging process such as cedar, cinnamon and vanilla. A classical, nuanced wine, it has a creamy flow and juicy freshness with a lean palate, polished, finely grained, slightly lush tannins and a chalky texture. Bold and long-lasting, the fresh core is key.
Chocolatey, cedary oak with truffles and tobacco here. While there is a lot of oak to flatter at this stage, it still delivers restraint, bearing and class. Keep smelling and you'll find scented, dark lead pencil, meaty spices, fine blackberries and a hint of tar. Ripe and rich, but nuanced, with more complexity that takes time to fully uncoil. Really silky, precise and polished tannins, loaded with some fruit sweetness on the palate, then extending to the finish that lasts a minute. Drinkable now, but better to hold.