2015 Bramare Zingaretti Malbec

The 2015 Bramare Malbec Zingaretti Estate was sourced from a plot in Villa Bastías in the Tupungato district of the Valle de Uco. It was the freshest and most floral of the four single-vineyard Estate Malbecs from the Bramare range in 2015. It comes from very old vines and resulted in almost 1% lower alcohol than the rest of the range. In 2017 they studied the soils and did a separate vinification from the stonier soils, so the wine from that year will be different, as it produced two very different wines. Those two "different" wines were still co-fermented in 2015, but you see the floral and aromatic part there, together with some darker fruit. It also has some oak flavors and tannins after spending 18 months in 65% new French barriques, with two rackings. It's nuanced and develops nicely in the glass, with notes of black tea, peach, violets and dark spices. 4,320 bottles produced.