Name: Weinert Carascal
Variety: 40% Malbec, 35% Cab Sauv, 25% Merlot - Bordeaux Blend
Region: Mendoza
Country: Argentina
Year: 2008
Price: $13.95
Professional Review: Aged for two years in cask. It has a rustic blackberry, scorched earth and leather-scented bouquet with touches of pressed flowers. The palate is well balanced with crisp tannins, expressive black tarry fruit and a Bordeaux-like finish.
My Review: Interesting nose. I smelled what seemed like leather or wet/sweat leather, like a leather glove that was on your sweaty palms all day while you were moving cattle from Texas to Oklahoma. I also got hints of formaldehyde/the liquid that organs and dead bodies are stored in. You remember high school biology where you disected that fetal pig? Or ever visit that medical/body museums? Yea, it smelled like that. On the palate I got burnt wood and a TON of tannins. Interestingly enough, even with all that tannins, it was light bodied and I personally didn't like the finish. I wouldn't pay the $13.95 for this 2008 vintage wine. I had this wine at a tasting without a meal.
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