Cahors Malbec

This 2009 is 85% Malbec, 15% Merlot and sits at 14* of alcohol. Plums, blueberries, black cherry, and violet aromas. Dry, with medium-high tannins, medium acids. Black currant, blackberry, black cherry, and unripe plum on the palate. Has aging potential now through 2015. Recommend decanting 1 hour or more before consumption, or use of an aerator.

Pulling all stops but not too many. Cassis jam,vanilla,thick polished tannins. A Wine Spectator Cahors.

This is a powerhouse, not brooding and filled with menace, but spirited and celebratory. The clay mingles with an herbaceous rosemary-mint, a fleshy mushroom, ripe black cherry and blackberry in a dark chocolate mix, this one paints the very glass these aromas leap from. Complex and complete it offers a rich slice of beet with blackberry blood. Endless depth, finesse and structure in this beauty which quite frankly puts almost every other wine at "par" to shame. Bravo! Magnifique!

Exotic. Nice Ying and Yang of earth and ripe fruit. Long finish.

💥 Hidden gem @ €18 & the best example Cahors I've found having spent time there - If you are going to try a Cahors make it Haute-Serre 👍 This 09 is ageing amazingly

fab QPR

🦆 Paired with cassoulet perfectly

🍇 100% Malbec

🍷Opaque ruby red

👃 Gravel, soggy earth & minerals infused into stewed blackberry & plum w/ burnt oak, liquorice & mocha

👄 Warming med+ body of ripe deep earthy black fruits in rich velvet smooth thick cocoa

🎯 Long mouth staining dark earthy chewy fruit & dry mocha

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Delightfully balanced. Very very good.

A lot of stuff. Most of it good.

Well balanced. Great nose. Just another great 09 French.

$25.25