Cristobal Barrel Selection Mendoza Malbec 2020

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Cristobal Barrel Selection Mendoza Malbec 2020.

Cristobal Barrel Selection Mendoza Malbec 2020
$60, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Mendoza/Spain.

This wine has been built to last, or to age, but it’s in a beautiful drinking place right now. In the zone, is the executive summary here. It tastes of leather and iodine, black cherry and cocoa, with rust, earth, tobacco-like herbs and floral notes adding character and highlights. Tannin is firm and grainy – the latter like an old photograph of something precious. This is a rustic pleasure, in the best sense of the words. 93 points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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