El Enemigo As Bravas Malbec 2018

Bodegas El Enemigo, under the direction of Alejandro Vigil, has done it again. A Malbec with very high aspirations.

From a small plot in El Cepillo (Uco Valley). It's a cool, gently sloping area within a mostly flat vineyard, featuring very different soils and angular stones in a location with glacial moraine, which is completely different from the rest of the vineyard. This causes the grapes to ripen much earlier, resulting in a very austere and stony wine, with a textured palate and abundant powdery tannins.

2018 “The Mendoza Year.” After a small and cool harvest in 2017, which they called “The Bordeaux Year,” and a small, very cool, and rainy year in 2016, “The Bourguignon Year,” they finally obtained a typically Mendoza harvest: dry, cool, sunny, and with moderate yields in all regions, from the lowest to the highest altitudes. Outstanding scores for the 2017 vintage: 100 points – Robert Parker (The Wine Advocate)