Today Doug is tasting two Malbecs. One is from a mjor producer in Argentina, as the country has taken over the world with their Malbec. The other is from Cahors in France, closer to the origin of this grape.
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:32 Self-promotion
1:50 Color of Malbecs
3:04 Aroma of 2019 Catena Malbec
4:27 Aroma of 2018 Cuvée 6666 Malbec
6:26 Tasting 2019 Catena Malbec
8:52 Tasting 2018 Cuvée 6666 Malbec
12:10 Summary of wines
12:31 Wine verse from Joel 2:24
12:40 Outro
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Hello I’m Doug and this is the Taste and Sensibility Channel and today on wine tasting number 18 we’re looking and comparing to malbecks from different parts of the world so I’ve been focusing on the wines of Argentina Spain and Australia so malbeck is a pretty famous export from Argentina and I have a
Cantina here that is a little different than their uh normal one and it’s called Appalachian La consulta so it might be a little more specialized area where the grapes come from as opposed to a wider region where the house normally takes uh makes them all back from many many many
Vineyards over here I have a mall back from cahors in France so that’s an Appalachian that I couldn’t quite find on my map it is not in any of the normal wine regions that I see but but it is known for malbeck and I bought this bottle just to
Try out a French malbeck and it was about 6565 $70 while this one was more like 30 so twice the price for the French one and we’re just going to find out if they are that different in taste or style or are they growing in such different
Places that the the wines are fairly different so let’s find out and before I start drink and before I started tasting I want to get you to like this video leave comments and questions down below share it with friends subscribe to the channel and click on that Bell to get notified when
The new videos come out so I am remembering more and more now to start with color and I’m lay down the Argentine malbeck and look at it and I’m seeing mostly a deep Ruby little lighter around the edges I can’t see through most of it I see through some at the
Edges but it’s a little paler a little pink or Garnet around the edges but the middle of it’s fairly deep Ruby maybe it maybe that’s just a medium and then the French all back from cahor paron my French never never do French pronunciations right and I’m seeing about the same sort
Of color range in this one the middle of it now fairly dark and deep and the edges are a little more pink or Garnet less intense and I can this one’s probably darker I can’t see as much at the edges as I can with the uh Argentine guess we move on to
Aroma so this is a 209 Vintage High Mountain Vines it says that Appalachian oh yeah all sorts of stains all over this label and they’re showing kind of a map of their higher elevation Vineyards on the front here so it’s uh berries of some kind deciding if they’re more black and
Blue or if they’re more red I’d say it’s a mixture I’m getting some blackberry blueberry stuff along with some strawberry and an outdoorsy sort of vibe smells like the outside so the fruit is pretty rich smelling and then maybe a few herbal notes or baking spice type things they’re faint and in the
Background and I can’t pick them apart it’s a pretty interesting nose and now oh nice rain over on the French side this is called CUV 6666 talking about how they made it it’s a cuet or blend of several different Vineyards I’m sure they with that name and this is a 2018
Vintage malbeck de cahors George vgu vguru okay too many vowels there to pronounce it right but that’s the producer uhoh nope Shau day mer oh no can’t say that either so there might be a blint oh yeah I don’t know 14% avv here and this is
13.5% avv so little more alcohol on the French one let’s check the nose H I’d say the fruits are a little more muted on the nose there’s still in that BlackBerry blueberry family might be a little more tartness like a strawberry uh a raspberry maybe not quite ripe so same
Sort of fruit palette but uh a little more muted a little more tart and I can’t really say anything about the uh herbal yeah there’s something in there something herbal and something hinting of B baking spices a nutmeg super faint clove super faint uh all spice or something like that okay so very
Similar it’s just all small differences so let’s taste oh wow good amount of tannins GR in from the mid pallets and kind of a spiciness it was started out way up front way early as a spiciness to it it’s not like pepper it’s not like even white pepper but something’s a little Z
Thingy and it’s not from tartness it’s a it’s kind of a a spicy thing I’m not really picking up acidity is a separate characteristic it’s all Blended in melded in integrated and the tannin are a feature that do uh go on independently of all the other flavors so it’s a very fine fuzzy
Tannon kind of feel from mid pallet on all over my tongue maybe on the roof of my mouth I’m feeling it in different places and I can still smell how fresh the fruits are there it’s a Blackberry it’s the loudest thing on the palette oh there’s yeah I’d say
Blueberry it’s in there and then more quiet red things could be strawberry and maybe I’m getting a little tartness now a little acidity CU I’m looking for red fruits and scrunching around for those flavors I’m noticing the tness from the acidity so it’s not a big bright thing
It’s just one of the notes and really well integrated and really really tasty so I’m liking this this would be a good uh red for steak or other uh hearty hearty proteins like that so yep that’s wonderful might it strikes me as a little bit older more aged more beat up uh leather
Beat up wood just a touch more of those kinds of notes they’re really faint over here and they’re a little louder here okay taste oh wow wow nice combination the flavors of the dark fruits are muted also compared to these over here these are nice and fresh and pop out a little
More like the difference between a French cab and a and a California cab these are a little more muted a little more quiet a little more uh integrated and Blended in and tannin on the back tannins are definitely there and I’m not picking up the acidity yet as a separate
Thing I thought maybe this smelled a little more tart than the Argentina melbeck but I’m not sure that’s happening on the pallette yeah the tannins are definitely growing in from the mid pallet on okay there is an acidity there is a tartness there is a brightness to it
That’s a little louder than it was over here so all the parts are there they’re just uh arranged different ways they’re very similar someday I might be able to identify grapes by The Taste and the aroma and the color so I’m liking all the Argentine malbecks I have and I was
Able I did pick up a French malbeck from the Wine Folly club and I tasted it and I like that too and I think it’s got a slight difference between the boldness of the fruit in the New World Wines like Argentina and then it’s a little more quiet muted maybe older things maybe
Leatherwood tobacco type notes on the French side are more prominent are what you end up with when the fruit’s a little more muted so I’m liking both of these they’re good and for $30 versus $65 $70 I’ll probably go with this one and try a French one every once in a
While when you see an interesting label and I’m picking up not so much on the palette but on the uh effect the uh 30 13 and a half% or 14% ABV it is a pretty good slug so don’t drink them too fast so I didn’t say both of these are
Thumbs up and it’s an interesting comparison where you get to see where the growing region uh how the growing region affects the overall Aroma and flavors this one’s a little more subtle and nuanced and this one’s a little bigger and Bolder so that’s my story and I’m
Sticking to it and the wine verse today is from Joel 2 the threshing floor shall be full of grain the Vats shall overflow with wine and oil so only one more video that I’m planning in this series in December so come back for that and Merry Christmas yes [Applause] S The