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Espuela del Gaucho 2011 Gaucho Spur Malbec (Mendoza)

Malbec · Espuela del Gaucho

Mendoza

Quality

A 0–100 expert rating: 80–84 good, 85–89 very good, 90–94 excellent, 95–100 classic. Higher means a more highly regarded wine.

80/100Good

This smells shrill, like rhubarb and cranberry, but it's also a tad weedy. It tastes of grapefruit rather than berry fruit.

Flavor profile

An estimate of the wine's structure: body (how full it feels), acidity (tartness), sweetness, and tannin (the drying grip in reds).

Body80%

Acidity50%

Sweetness15%

Tannin70%

cranberrygrapefruit

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