Great Value Malbec: French and Argentinian Taste Special

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Isabelle and Josh sit down to taste two malbecs - one from France, the other from Argentina. The catch? Isabelle has to guess the price of each wine. Watch the video to find out what she thought...
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Featured:
Malbec de Balthazar Pays d'Oc (£8.69)
www.waitrose.com/ecom/product...
Malbec Altos Las Hormigas Mendoza 2018 (£8.99)*
*Try something similar:
Malbec Altos Las Hormigas Tradición (£11.99)
www.waitrosecellar.com/malbec...
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@pablopolanka Жыл бұрын

I'm a sommelier from Argentina. The Altos Las Hormigas you tried is a rather inexpensive, sub-par wine on here. It used to be better many years back, not any more. That one label is really an entry- level two-dollar wine (u$s 2). And that's what you get, a table wine with some woody nuances from oak chips (those wine are "corrected" to conceal excess acidity and greenness). There are wonderful wines from Mendoza, Salta, Patagonia and other regions at the foot of the andes, but you would need to lay out at least u$s12+ and go with Catena Zapata and a few others. Locally though, there are myriads of outstanding wineries and small producers (and prices here are a fraction of those overseas). Cheers

@Rob-pz5dw 2 жыл бұрын

Mendoza (where Malbec is grown in Argentina) has a tempered climate, not really hot. Argentina is hot in the north, tempered in the middle and cold in the south.

@FedeUnimev 2 жыл бұрын

Kindaa, you have to remember all west of Argentina has the Andes, and mostly Malbecs are grown near the Andes, which the climate is hot by the day and cold by the night. There are few winerys that are producing Malbecs near the atlantic sea but thats a real new thing but really interesting.

@Rob-pz5dw 2 жыл бұрын

@@FedeUnimev The climate is hot by the day in summer, have you ever spent a winter in Mendoza? The Andes have nothing to do with it. You find The Andes in Patagonia also and the climate is cold.

@javierpuchetovich3307 2 жыл бұрын

Altos Las Hormigas is a very good wine before 2010. Now you have to pay to Altos Las hormigas Reserve to drink maybe the same wine.

@simplementetave 2 жыл бұрын

“Fantastic”…

@faviorodriguez4926 2 жыл бұрын

💪💪💪💪💪💪

@tadeog6321 2 жыл бұрын

Why did you spit out only the argentinian one? lol, a bit disrespective

@lordofrims 2 жыл бұрын

Not disrespectful at all, that's how wine tasting is done. You shake it, smell it, look its colours and residues in the cup, get a sniff with wine in your mouth, you push it for a taste, then spit in a bucket.