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Pietro Marini Malbec/Cabernet Sauvignon Roble 2013

Here's a wine we haven't been trumpeting enough. Why? No idea. We sell so many great wines, occasionally a great one will slip under the radar. So let's rectify that terrible error right now, because El Transito's Malbec/Cabernet Sauvignon Roble 2013 deserves to be in your next order.

It's a supremely quaffable blend of 70% Malbec, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, skilfully combining the ripe plummy ebullience of Malbec with the refined dry fruit notes of Cab Sav, and resulting in a wine with a singularly smooth finish. Winemaker Andres Nanni of El Transito is a master of the blend (if you've tried his Cab Sav/Syrah you'll know), and this is another prime example of his skill; with careful oak ageing bringing light coffee notes to the red & black fruits.

Born from the high, dry terroir of the Calchaqui Valley, 1750 metres above sea level, it's quite literally a wine that stands above the rest in its quality. 

 

In the mouth there's the flavour of black fruits and mild, mature tannins. 

A very popular wine from the El Transito winery and a fine example of the high altitude terroir of Cafayate.

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MEET the winemaker…

Pietro Marini - Bodega El Transito

At the begining of 2012 Tim Atkin, Master of Wine and award winning journalist, tasted over five hundred wines from Argentina.  One of the wineries that impressed him greatly was Bodega El Transito located in Cafayate, at over 6,000 feet, in the north-western province of Salta.  He includes this in his ten wineries to watch and he also rates the wines particularly highly.

The roots of the El Transito winemaking tradition stretch back to the end of the nineteenth century when the current owner's great grandfather, Pietro Marini, emigrated from Italy and settled in Cafayate.  The tradition has been handed down and is now in its fourth generation, in the very capable hands of Andrés Nanni.  

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