Domingo Molina Malbec

[Innkeeper]

2000 Domingo Molina, Yacochuya Vinyard, Malbec, Salta, Argentina ($13 Southern Hemisphere Wine Center). Although this wine was carefully crafted from grapes meticulously grown, it reminded me of the best of peasant wines from Southern France, Italy, and Greece from my youth.

In other words, a lusty wine. Almost pitch black color, overripe fruit and spice on the nose and upfront, massive complxity and chewy tannin cross the palate, all followed with an elegant and prolonged finish. This wine never saw a tree or a product thereof. What was the last time you enjoyed an oakless red?

Matched it with broiled fillet mignon with rasher, OO, and Morton Rub. The match was fine, but next time will try it with a homemade Kielbasa or similar sausage. Highly recommend this malbec in the latter setting.