Red
Abacela Malbec (Umpqua Valley)
Umpqua Valley · Southern Oregon · United States
Fact sheet
- Type
- Red
- Grape
- Malbec
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Umpqua Valley · Southern Oregon
- Appellation
- Umpqua Valley
- Body
- medium
- Acidity
- medium
- Tannin
- medium
- Sweetness
- dry
Food pairing
carnes grelhadas · caça · queijos curados · pratos com especiarias · cordeiro
Rated vintages
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200788 pts
Exotic scents immediately characterize this wine as fascinating; weaving together incense, smoke, wild berry, baking spices and plum jam. Yet the wine retains a delicacy, lightness, its flavors based upon juicy acids rather than new oak. It showcases the fruit, and does so with…
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199985 pts
This unusual Oregon Malbec carries intense, rustic aromas mixing plum, grape, spice and saddle leather. Despite its very tight tannins, the wine tastes open and grapey, reminiscent of a Washington Lemberger, though not quite as soft.