Torino Don David Malbec 2005 Cafayate Valley

Wine magazine recently awarded this outstanding wine 2nd place and 95 points in their Argentine Malbec tasting writing "Nice intensity of liquorice fruit with good concentration ... modern, juicy, sexy wine ... a superb palate with length and sweetly toasted oak." Argentina is gradually doing for Malbec what New Zealand has already done for Sauvignon Blanc - redefining the style and creating sustained worldwide interest. "Malbec is Argentina's calling card. Nowhere else in the world, not even in its home territory of south-west France, does Malbec attain the stature it does here". Simon Woods, FT Weekend, 01/09/01 Customers may well remember the terrific quality of Don David 2002, so good that it came top of the Decanter magazine 'all-comers' tasting, beating many a more glamorous wine in the process. Bordeaux lovers delighted in Don David's rich, dark fruit, like a super-charged Medoc. Sourced from some of the highest vineyards in the world, where the air is pure, the days long and water (mainly from snowmelt) is abundant, this is a red of exceptional richness and purity. While the 2002 scored a massive 95 points in a comprehensive 'Wine' magazine tasting, the 2003, thanks to a magnificent vintage, is finer still and has already scooped Silver in Buenos Aires. Dark and concentrated with aromas of plums, tobacco and minerals. smooth, mouth-filling, berry fruit flavours supported by nuances of fine, spicy oak. Very impressive and complex.