Fabre Montmayou Grand Vin 2012
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The top of the range is the 2012 Fabre Montmayou Grand Vin, a blend of a majority Malbec from Vistalba, with a little Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. This is a classical Bordeaux blend that is nicely oaked and has good concentration, flavors and aromas of cigar box, graphite, scorched earth and blackberries with plenty of spice and smoke. The palate is full-bodied with an abundance of tannins, good concentration and stuffing to age in bottle. In fact, it still needs some time to digest the effect of the élevage. This is mostly Malbec with 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Merlot from the old vineyard next to the winery that produces naturally concentrated, powerful wines. This should age into a classical red blend.
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James Suckling
Concentrated style with a dense palate and intense fruit, but it remains dry and rich with tension and power. Needs three years to soften. Better in 2018.
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With an opaque purple color and grapy, full aromas of blackberry Kool-Aid and cassis, this ripe Bordeaux blend is plump, chewy and a touch soft on the palate. Toasty but largely generic black-fruit flavors finish blackened, with a note of creosote, heat and drawing tannins.
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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.