Why you'll love it
A standout high-altitude Mendoza Malbec—92 points, Wine Spectator Top 100 and aged in French & American oak for complexity, all at excellent value.
Ripe blackberry, plum and dark cherry with floral violet notes and a gentle vanilla–spice finish. Plush, full-bodied with fine-grained tannins.
Perfect with grilled meats, steak, cured meats or hearty, umami-rich dishes.
Best known in Mendoza, Cahors
Argentina's signature red. Dark plum, blackberry and violets, with a soft, velvety texture that makes it very easy to like, with high-altitude Mendoza vineyards keeping it fresh. In its original home, Cahors, it makes firmer, darker and more rustic wines.
Argentina
The Andes as backdrop, altitude as climate control. Mendoza produces the vast majority of Argentina's wine — Malbec above all — from vineyards that sit at 600–1,500 metres above sea level. The altitude brings freshness to what might otherwise be overwhelmingly ripe fruit. Luján de Cuyo and the Uco Valley are the finest sub-regions.
Mendoza, Argentina
Finca Sophenia is an Argentinian producer in Mendoza, with high-altitude vineyards in Gualtallary. Love Wine stocks the Altosur Malbec and the Malbec Reserve, the latter made under biodynamic-minded winemaker Matías Michelini.
More from Sophenia →Grown at ~4,000 ft in Gualtallary (Uco Valley), hand-harvested and aged 10–12 months under the watch of biodynamic-minded winemaker Matías Michelini—bold yet elegant.
If you like these, you'll love this: Fans of high-altitude Argentinian Malbec or structured New World reds will enjoy this as a step up from Alamos or Trapiche Reserve. Also available in Magnum format.
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