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Wine Reviews --> Malbec --> Tikal Patriota Bonarda-Malbec 2010

Tikal Patriota Bonarda-Malbec 2010 Mendoza, Argentina

Suggested Retail: $24, We Bought a Bunch: $17.99

This monster is ultra-ripe, dense and smooth as silk! Like big wine? Don't miss this one...

What the Wine Critics Thought: Wine Advocate: 91 Points
A glass-coating opaque purple color, Patriota sports an enticing nose of Asian spices, incense, lavender, plum, and blueberry. In the glass it opens to reveal a ripe, plush, savory wine with no hard edges. Drink this well-balanced, lengthy wine through 2017. It is an outstanding value.

What We Thought: Notes of cinnamon, graphite and super-ripe blackberry and plum fruit dominate this dense, ultra-full bodied Argentine blend that stays silky smooth in spite of its food friendly acids and tannins.