Notes on a nice malbec

[thewoodman]

Susana Balbo 1999 Malbec, Mendoza

Deep purple color, rich nose of dark fruit and smoke. Dense plum and raspberry fruitin a velvety smooth and well balanced package.

Although I've enjoyed many malbecs from Argentina, this was really the first higher end example I've had, and I was impressed. At $23, this put the other bottle we had at dinner to shame (a $60 CA cab). Anyone have any recommendations for other fine malbecs?