Fabre Montmayou Grand Vin 2010
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Great combined with delicate dishes, grilled meats, and chocolate desserts.
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This is a structured and rich red with blueberry and dark chocolate character and hints of walnuts. Full body, with chew tannins and a long finish. Chili and spices. Structured red. An old vine wine. Aged 16 months in French oak. 11,200 bottles made. Needs two or three years to soften.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2010 Grand Vin is a blend of 85% Malbec, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Merlot from Vistalba, from an old Malbec vineyard planted in 1908, 15 hectares that were the heart and the beginning of the project. The wine is dark-colored, classical and restrained in the nose. In fact, it closes down in the glass and you need to swirl it around to get some aromas that are not fruity, or woody, but more earthy and subtle. The palate is full-bodied and has the acidity, stuffing and ingredients to age nicely. This is a great wine. Drink 2016-2024.
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Hervé Joyaux Fabre, owner and director of Fabre Montmayou, was born in Bordeaux, France to a family of wine negociants. When he arrived in Argentina in the early 90’s looking for opportunities to invest in vineyards and start a winery, he was impressed by the potential for Malbec in Mendoza, and shocked by the number of neglected top notch old vine vineyards available for purchase. At this time pulling out old vines and replanting with new higher yielding more predictable clones was all the rage. Hervé Fabre knew he needed to act immediately. Within months he purchased the first of what would be many old vine, high elevation vineyard sites under his control - An impeccable 37 acre spread in Vistalba planted with original rootstock Malbec vines in 1908. Shortly after, Herve built a Chateau style winery on the property and continued purchasing old vine parcels throughout the country. A Patagonian winery was constructed in the Rio Negro region ten years later. At present the family owns 217 acres of vineyard land in Mendoza (Vistalba, Compuertas, Tupungato) and 122 acres in Patagonia (Allen, General Roca). All wines are estate grown, farmed using traditional methods without the use of herbicides, and fermented with native yeasts.
Most distinguished and celebrated from Argentina’s Mendoza, Malbec has seen runaway success since the early 2000s. Mendoza’s agreeable, continental climate with hot, dry summers and cold snowy winters allows the perfect conditions for growing outstanding Malbec. This grape is easy to like for its lusty, deep flavors and aromas of blackberry, plum, red cherry, autumn spice and tilled earth. It’s easy to find delicious, fruit-driven, affordable everyday examples and in prices beyond, quite exceptional ones with dense, supple textures that make them capable of aging.