Product description
Durigutti Family Winemakers is a family winery founded in 2002 by brothers and winemakers Héctor and Pablo Durigutti. The winery is located in the heart of Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza – the spiritual home of Argentinian Malbec.
It is a refined, high-altitude Malbec with notes of violets, cassis, red cherry, hints of dried herbs. On the palate, it has a great texture with round velvety tannins, notes of cocoa nibs with a long, persistent finish with a satisfying, savoury edge. A perfect food wine – go classic and partner with a hearty steak.
Selected as Best in Show at the Decanter World Wine Awards, 2023.
The wine is dark black-purple in colour, with a dense weave of aroma which probably needs a year or two more to resolve itself and show at its best: look out for meat, bacon and leather amongst the gathered black fruits. It’s very deep and very pure, by contrast, on the palate: laser-focussed black-plum and sloe fruits with classic Malbec rose petal and tea-leaf overtones. This perfumed purity alone is remarkable testimony to the potential of the terroir. Add the fine-textured tannins, fruit-drenched acidity and sense of stony finesse engraved in the wine and its lingering finish and you’ll see that something remarkable is coming to light here.
- 97 pts Decanter World Wine Awards