De Martino 'El Leon' Carignan 2007 single vineyard offering from 70 year old vines
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90+ pts Wine Advocate Issue #192 Dec 2010
The 2007 Carignan Single Vineyard contains 5% Carmenere and 5% Malbec with the Carignan sourced from vines over 60 years of age. Medium purple in color, it gives up an earthy nose with hints of balsamic, Asian spices, tobacco, and assorted black fruits. This leads to a medium-bodied wine with layered spicy fruit, intense flavors, good balance, and a medium-long finish. It has 1-2 years of aging potential but can be approached now through 2019. 92 pts Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar, May/June 2011
Inky-ruby. An intensely perfumed bouquet evokes redcurrant, cherry pie, smoky minerals and an exotic note of potpourri. Deeply pitched red and dark fruit flavors show uncanny vivacity and pick up notes of rose and lavender pastille with air. Juicy and palate-staining, with intense finishing spiciness and excellent length. This wine clocks in with a very low pH of 3.13 and has a high acidity level of 6.15 g/l, but also holds 4.35 g/l of residual sugar and 14.5% alcohol.
