Finca Mangato Las Estelas Malbec Alto de las Piedras Tupungato Mendoza 2019

MALBEC, you sexy beast, you’ve done it again!

WOW! Don’t sleep on this…91 POINTS, planet-rockingly priced..so stoked to have gotten this back…just deliriously, so very happy…here it goes. We discovered this with the ‘17 vintage, then it got discovered by the REST of the world and we couldn't get any ‘18 (cue canned “sad” noises). Anywho…onward and upward! We’re back on top with the TWENTY NINETEEN — great, googly-moogly, YES! So good! Finca Mangato from rockstar Estela Perinetti (more on her below) — so rocking, so….and let’s just say it….crazy CHEAP! 

If intellectual, spicy, finely-tuned, and stark-raving delicious at a mind-blowing price is your bag, this is it! It’s our bag - we bought every bottle we could, but at prices like this (best in the U.S. – WHAT, WHAT?!?!). So, real quick -- Estela Perinetti worked for years with the high-end wines (read: 95-100 pointers, LOTS of them) at the legendary Catena winery, and was handpicked by Laura Catena to head the Château Lafite Rothschild/Catena collaboration called Bodegas Caro. Now, she is on her own and we spent months working our magic (really, just emails and phone calls, but ya know, magic is hard work sometimes, just ask David Blaine). But so completely, WORTH IT! Just...so...GOOD! And we are so...grateful! Already crossing our fingers that she’ll give us some 2020!

High-altitude, 26-year-old vines - this is NOT for the shy! BIG and mouth-watering and lavishly spicy. That said, its tannins will never harsh your mellow and there’s no sense of heaviness-- packed with bushels of wild blackberries, chai spice, dried flowers, pie crust, espresso bean, and dark cacao, with a freshness that is super-savory and keeps the salivary glands busy. Outrageously good – even more so at our unbeatable price. Seriously, what?

Madness! While it lasts!