2015 Bramare Malbec Chanares Estate
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The 2015 Bramare Malbec Chañares Estate is from their new flagship vineyard in Los Árboles in the Tunuyán department of the Valle de Uco. This is a new bottling from two specific blocks within this estate vineyard. The blocks are planted with a clonal selection from Luján de Cuyo, and they have also planted some plots with material from their other older vines. The wine has some notes of aromatic plants and flowers, nice Malbec typicity and moderate ripeness. Considering they still used 65% new French barriques in 2015 and the wine matured in barrel for 18 months, the oak is integrated and provides spicy, smoky and balsamic aromas with hints of incense and cigar ash that tend to standardize aromas and flavors. It's still energetic and young. 9,960 bottles produced.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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(14.8% alcohol; from ten-year-old vines on sandy soil with a lot of big stones; aged in 65% new oak; Vignoni describes this as "a more rustic site surrounded by countryside, with a lot of native herb influence; production was just three tons per hectare in 2015). Saturated ruby. Very primary nose dominated by a stony quality. Highly concentrated and extremely primary, offering flavors of blackberry, blueberry, violet, licorice, wild herbs and lightly fusel crushed rock (Vignoni described this note as "water on hot rocks"). Finishes with an impression of medicinal reserve and slowly building length. This juicy but youthfully imploded wine, which carries a relatively low pH of 3.4, finishes firmly tannic and needs time to expand in the bottle. There's no easy sweetness here.
About the producer
Viña Cobos is a pioneering producer in Mendoza, known for being the first Argentinian estate to produce a 100-point wine. Founded and run by star California winemaker Paul Hobbs, Viña Cobos has been instrumental in raising the profile of fine wine in Argentina.