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Tradition Cahors Malbec

by Chateau Lamartine 2020

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Producer : Château Lamartine

Region : Cahors (France), France (France)

Bottle Per Case : 12 x 750 ml

Food Pairing : Hard Cheese, Red Meat

Tasting Notes

This is a rich wine with powerful tannins. It has ripe dark blue and black fruit notes with a touch of vanilla. While the tannins are full the wine has a great acid backbone to maintain the structure. This is a top value, structured and succulent red that is ready to sip alongside some salty, fatty protein.

"This is a well-made and attractively priced wine from Lamartine, properly grippy in the Southwest Cahors idiom, yet with ripe black and blue fruit underpinning the palate along with wild resinous herbs and dried violets. Tannins are moderate in abundance but firm and dusty, while acids are comfortably balanced. Length, depth and ultimately complexity are very solid for the price category; regionally representative wine without any overt rusticity. Drink or hold into the mid-late-'20s."

5 Star Value - John Szabo MS, WineAlign, June 2023

Specs

Bottles Per Case 12 Pack
Cellaring Drink Now or Cellar
Sweetness XD - Extra Dry See Sweetness Chart
Bottle Size 750 ml
Producer Château Lamartine
Region Cahors (France), France (France)
Alcohol 13.5% alc./vol.
Style Medium & floral
Vintage 2020
Farming Method Traditional
Grapes Malbec
Food Pairing Hard Cheese, Red Meat
Descriptors Earthy, Floral, Fruity, Mineral
Wine Type Red
Wood Presence Oaked
Body Medium
Price of Case $335.88

The Producer

Château Lamartine

Chateau Lamartine was built in 1922 on the site of a century-old oak tree. Local legend recounts that in the Middle Ages this was where Martine, the daughter of the local Baron, would meet her various suitors. As a family property that dates back to the Middle Ages, these vineyards survived the Gallo-Roman wars as well the invasion of phylloxera in 1878. The terroir of the 37 hectares faces South on clay and limestone soils which guarantees a perfect maturity to the Malbec, coming from vines all between 20 and 45 years old.

The Cahors appellation is not only one of the most historically important wine appellations in all of France, it is the spiritual home of the Malbec grape. Situated along the Lot River in the southwest, a few hours inland from Bordeaux, Cahors had the market for powerful Malbec reds essentially cornered, only to have its thunder stolen by the dense, polished wines of Mendoza, Argentina. But a growing legion of forward-thinking properties are trying to change that and Chateau Lamartine is one such estate.

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