Alamos

A simple, crunchy and fruity cabernet sauvignon with some ripe cherries, wet leaves and a hint of baked currants. Pretty soft for a cabernet with a small amount of lightly chewy tannins that frame the medium-bodied palate. Easy and fruity style made for early drinking. Drink now. Screw cap.

From high altitude Mendoza vineyards, this was crushed and cold soaked for 72 hours prior to ferment, to extract more intensity. It was then fermented in stainless, and rested 6-9 months in 1 and 2 year French and American oak barrels. Sweet ripe cassis, blackberry is woven with pipe tobacco, camp smoke, pepper, with grippy / ragged tannins leading this to a warming mentholated finish. Best taken now, with grilled meats / veg.