- WINERY Bodegas Bressia
- GRAPE Malbec
- YEAR 2007
- COUNTRY Argentina
- REGION Mendoza
Walter Bressia spent 30 years making wine for some of Argentina’s biggest brands; at his boutique Mendoza estate he now produces less than 100 barrels of wine a year.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Walter Bressia did what a lot of dreamers who work for big corporations fantasize about: After a successful career making wine at large commercial wineries, he left to start his own shop. In 2003, he crushed his first grapes under his own label at a friend’s facility—enough to fill two small stainless steel tanks—then aged that wine at his own boutique winery in Mendoza, completed early the next year. He crafts eight wines, mostly reds, all in very small lots, on which he lavishes his happily focused attention. Bressia aged this lush Malbec for 18 months in French oak barrels, which gave its dark fruit flavors a smoky edge.
SMELL IT
Smoky, tobacco-edged scents of black cherries and currants.
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TASTE IT
Deep and plush, with red and black fruit flavors inflected with savory notes of coffee and incense.
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SERVE IT
Cellar temperature—the bottle should be cool to the touch.
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