"Really focused and bright on the nose with sweet currants, tobacco and cocoa powder. Medium-to full-bodied palate, loaded with a mouthful of seamless tannins. Powerful and dusty, but still quite elegant. Better from 2024."

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"Edy Del Popolo makes this delightful, well-priced Cabernet Sauvignon with purchased grapes from the Los Árboles sub-region of the Uco Valley. Taut, tangy and focused, with engaging fresh mint and black cherry fruit, fine tannins and oak integration and impressive structure. 2023-30"

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"Blackcurrant, blackberry, bark and iodine on the nose. It’s medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins and bright acidity. Juicy and creamy. Drink now."

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"The BenMarco range offers very good quality for the price, and the 2019 BenMarco Cabernet Sauvignon, produced with grapes from Los Árboles in Tunuyán, is a textbook varietal example with balsamic and herbal notes, great definition and balance, ripeness and finesse. It matured in second use French barriques for 11 months. 48,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2020."

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"This midnight purple colored Cabernet Sauvignon from Susana Balbo opens with a blackberry and black cherry bouquet with hints of dark chocolate and black currant. On the palate, this wine is full bodied with medium plus acidity. The mouthfeel is balanced, round, fresh and savory. The flavor profile is a black cherry and black currant blend with notes of oak, black tea and loam. I also detected hints of clove, cinnamon, and black pepper. The finish is dry and its moderate dusty tannins drift away nicely. This Cab would pair well with your favorite steak and black bean burrito recipe. Enjoy."

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"A juicy, fruity cabernet sauvignon with currant and floral aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied, firm and fruity. Balanced and refined. Drink now."

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"Bright ruby-red. Pure, high-pitched aromas of dark berries, black cherry, licorice, herbs and violet, plus a suggestion of white tobacco. A wonderfully elegant, mineral-tinged Cabernet midweight with subtle sweetness to its pristine dark fruit and tobacco flavors. Finishes with lush, smooth tannins, lovely length and a light touch. Susana Balbo told me that she looks more for polysaccharides than for coffee and chocolate torrefaction from her use of oak, toasting her barrels more slowly and at lower temperature. And she also makes her wine "relatively approachable" early but capable of aging, "by ripening the tannins on the vines." Incidentally, from 1999 through 2016 the Cabernet that Balbo bottled under her eponymous label came from this vineyard but when she began making the Susana Balbo Cabernet from vines in Gualtallary, this fruit was earmarked for the BenMarco bottling. (13.9% alcohol; from very stony soil; aged in second- and third-use oak)"

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"Linear and very tight with blueberries, walnuts and hints of hazelnuts. Medium body, polished tannins and a compact and very finely structured tannin texture. Drink or hold."

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"Bright, saturated ruby-red. Rather brooding, slightly inky aromas of blackcurrant, blackberry, licorice and spices, plus a hint of bitter chocolate. At once fine-grained and vibrant, conveying the energy of this cool year without any overwhelming greenness. Distinctly blacker in its fruit character than the 2015 version, and more bound-up at the same stage, but this fine-grained Cabernet Sauvignon finishes with smooth tannins and good rising length. Not the last word in complexity, and certainly carrying an herbal aspect, but this mineral-tinged wine may yet gain with another year or two of bottle aging."

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"As I see in many other wines, the 2016 BenMarco Cabernet Sauvignon is clearly subtler than the 2015, with more freshness. It is focused and has contained ripeness but is not lacking power. The vintage is very marked in the two BenMarco Cabernet Sauvignons I tasted together, this 2016 and the 2015. 42,000 bottles produced."

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