A Review on Our 2014 Gran Corte Estate Blend
Thank you Robert Vernick, DipWSET, of WineTerrior for the recent review on our Estate Blend. We especially appreciate your candid remark—
“Very modern and polished. A bit 🔥”
— WineTerrior
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Robert’s review on our 2014 Gran Corte Estate Blend—
This wine is from the Uco Valley in Mendoza, Argentina. The blend is 70% Malbec, 15% Cabernet Franc, 10% Merlot, and 5% Syrah. Aged in French oak barrels for 20 months.
👁 Deep purple color with a medium rim.
👃 Medium+ intensity on the nose. Aromas of oak, sawdust, cedar, vanilla cream, clove, black plum, boysenberry, pomegranate, black cherry, earthy, violets, and balsamic (VA).
👄 The wine is dry, medium+ acidity, high powdery tannins, high alcohol (14.5%), and full body. A medium-length finish of ripe black plums and cherries covered in sawdust with some violet petals sprinkled on top.
🔔 Big and extracted ripe black fruit slathered in polished high-end new oak. The oak still needs time to integrate and initially covers up a lot of the fruit on the nose. There is a lot to like in the wine, and it did open up after a few hours of breathing. The alcohol, while not super high in terms of ABV, is fairly noticeable🔥on the finish. Anyone drinking a lot of bigger new world Cabernets will find this to be appealing and a good value.