AR Susana Balbo Signature Uco Valley Mendoza Malbec

Many Malbec associate with powerful, robust and sweet-fruited red wines, but Susana Balbo chooses instead to emphasize the elegant fruity and minerality of the grape variety.
Made with purchased grapes from Altamira, this impressive, limestone-influenced Malbec contains 4% Merlot in this vintage.
It’s a scented, well balanced expression of the grape with bright acidity, crunchy blackberry fruit, well integrated oak and filigree tannins. More evidence of the change of style here.

VARIETALS
96% Malbec, 4% Merlot

VINTAGE
2023

TECHNICAL DATA
Alcohol 14.5%
Total acidity 5.25 g/l

APPEARANCE
Intense ruby red.

NOSE
Aromas of blueberries and blackberries, with notes of flowers and licorice.

PALATE
Intense and at the same time gentle on the palate, with an elegant finish and round tannins.

AGEING
13 months in French oak (30% new, 70% second-use).

PAIRING 
Red meat, pork, poultry and stuffed pasta.

RATINGS

93pts James Suckling

93pts Tim Atkin;

VIVINO 4.0

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