We've scored a great deal on another excellent wine for lovers of the full-bodied classics of the world, from St. Emilion to Ribeira del Duero, from the Tuscan coast to the North Coast of California! This time it's Argentina that's delivered the value, and from a pedigreed source. James Suckling describes our featured wine as having "aromas of blueberries, blackberries and black truffles" and a "tight and chewy structure" with a "fresh and lively finish" and a "hot stone undertone." Such a high-quality wine, with restraint in fruit ripeness, depth of stuffing, and not least, balance, are signs of veteran winemakers.
The project BUSCADO VIVO O MUERTO (Wanted Dead or Alive) comes from the founders of the dynamic TintoNegro winery, Alejandro Sejonovich and Jeff Mausbach, who were long-time colleagues at the famous and highly regarded Argentinian winery, Catena Zapata. The name of this most recent project refers to their search for new, frontier vineyard sites in the Uco Valley, spots where no one was working. In the highest reaches, 5,000 feet up in the Andes foothills, they found something special in the area of Gualtallary. The wine they make from the site, "La Verdad" (The Truth), is a combined fermentation of Malbec and Cabernet Franc using native yeast, and mellowed in large, mostly seasoned French oak barrels. The result is a delicious and deep wine that's driven by the grapes and the site (with some careful shepherding by the winemakers, of course). We'll let Luis Gutierrez of The Wine Advocate bring it home!
WINE ADVOCATE 96 POINTS - "One of two wines from Gualtallary, the 2015 La Verdad Gualtallary is a co-fermentation of Malbec and Cabernet Franc from a 25-year-old vineyard at some 1,500 meters in altitude, which usually produces very fresh wines. The whole range is produced and aged in a very similar way to highlight the differences provided by the different places. My favorite of the 2015 collection, it has great freshness, super fine tannins and great minerality. This comes from cold soils that produce serious wines."
The project BUSCADO VIVO O MUERTO (Wanted Dead or Alive) comes from the founders of the dynamic TintoNegro winery, Alejandro Sejonovich and Jeff Mausbach, who were long-time colleagues at the famous and highly regarded Argentinian winery, Catena Zapata. The name of this most recent project refers to their search for new, frontier vineyard sites in the Uco Valley, spots where no one was working. In the highest reaches, 5,000 feet up in the Andes foothills, they found something special in the area of Gualtallary. The wine they make from the site, "La Verdad" (The Truth), is a combined fermentation of Malbec and Cabernet Franc using native yeast, and mellowed in large, mostly seasoned French oak barrels. The result is a delicious and deep wine that's driven by the grapes and the site (with some careful shepherding by the winemakers, of course). We'll let Luis Gutierrez of The Wine Advocate bring it home!
WINE ADVOCATE 96 POINTS - "One of two wines from Gualtallary, the 2015 La Verdad Gualtallary is a co-fermentation of Malbec and Cabernet Franc from a 25-year-old vineyard at some 1,500 meters in altitude, which usually produces very fresh wines. The whole range is produced and aged in a very similar way to highlight the differences provided by the different places. My favorite of the 2015 collection, it has great freshness, super fine tannins and great minerality. This comes from cold soils that produce serious wines."