We received a present from a neighbour last weekend, a Pascual Toso Malbec 2009 from Mendoza, website here. After being opened and decanted for about an hour and a half we tucked in. Immediately we were impressed. There was some nice plummy fruit, delicate tannins and a long finish, this was a very well balanced wine; reasonably fruit forward in a New World style but with some lovely structure to balance it out.
If you are having a steak or like your Malbecs then you will not go wrong with this wine.
About two weeks ago I picked up a few disparate bottles in Superquinn, Blackrock. We drank the last of these last night. It was a Vina Albali Gran Reserve 1999 (€6). When I bought it I said "This wine is probably very tired... and priced to move, but you never know".
I hate to say I told me so, but I was not wrong. This wine was tired, with not a lot going for it, some fading fruit and vanilla flavours and a sharp, and slightly unpleasant taste on the finish. Herself liked it, but there's no accounting for taste, she married me after all.
**Update - Nov 12 2010 - Saw this Malbec in Donnybrook Fair for €9-99. A steal!
Haha! Stonking close out line.
ReplyDeleteNice one, I must try that Pascual Toso Malbec again, they did a decent Sauvie a few years back as well.
I had Toso Malbec at Fenns Quay restaurant a few weeks back in Cork. Excellent! I had lamb and the girlfriend had steak.
ReplyDeleteI suspect it would go well with steak, or any red meat...
ReplyDeleteWillie
My Son just got back from honeymoon in Argentia,
ReplyDeletebrought back a bottle of Pascual Toso,2008 Malbec, Alta Reserva, excellent,relieved that it is available locally.
Do you know any stockists in D6
Brendan K
Brendan,
ReplyDeleteYou're (probably) not a million miles away from Donnybrook Fair and their wines are generally pretty decent...
Willie