Radio silence cabernet
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The highest vineyards in the world are located in Argentina, and even the inexpensive wines are grown way up in the sky: this bottle comes from vineyards located at around 3,300 feet above sea level, in the foothills of the Andes. The coolest thing about wine from Argentina, and the thing that makes quality winemaking even possible this close to the equator (wine grapes only successfully grow between 30 and 50 degrees latitude North and South, and Argentina’s dominant wine region of Mendoza hovers at around the 32 degree mark) is the altitude involved. I haven’t been avoiding it on purpose - like everyone, I’m a fan of a good Malbec - but after a couple sips of this wine, I knew I was going to regret making it my initial foray into the grape. The grape that has been a part of the blend in red Bordeaux wines for centuries but that has taken the drinking world by storm in the last decade with its single-varietal Argentinian incarnation is definitely the Shiraz of the 2000s, the new red wine that offers such an inexpensive and enjoyable experience that it has put a previously-ignored winemaking country on the vinous map. Malbec! I have no idea how this is possible, but this is the very first Malbec that has been the feature of its own PnP review. The worst has now passed, but I still have a bit of residual congestion, so be warned in advance that the following review could be completely inaccurate…but it’s free, so what do you care? Many apologies for the blog radio silence over the past few days: after weeks of avoiding it, I finally ended up catching the sinus/chest cold that every single person in Calgary currently has, so I had to shut down my wine consumption until I was more or less healthy. Marketing note: maybe don't name your wine after a weed.