2023 Bleasdale Generations Malbec

Fresh and elegant with juicy red to blue fruits.

Bleasdale has been growing Malbec since the late 1800’s and produced the regions first Malbec table wine in 1961. Today they are one of the leading exponents of this variety. The fruit for their Generations Malbec was sourced from three estate vineyard blocks and two specialist growers with maturation taking place in a mix of new (5%) and seasoned French oak puncheons for a period of 12 months.
Pitch black heart with a dark purple black tinged hue. Fragrant blueberry, plum and liquorice scents flood the nostrils followed by some violet, spicy vanillin cedar, fresh herb and earth notes. Juicy blueberry, plum and red liquorice fruits carry a refined feel across the palate. Fine grained, slightly dusty tannins with infusions of fresh herbs, earth and spicy vanillin cedar unfolding across the back half. Medium bodied it finishes fresh and elegant.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 13.5%

Other Reviews……
This is just hitting its straps. Easy to get into, as it offers all the archetypal flavours and more. Appealing fresh tobacco and warm bitumen aromas come through, while flavours of dark plums and black cherries are doused in licorice, woodsy spices and choc-mint. It’s a fuller-bodied but not big wine. There’s a certain restraint and elegance to this, and that’s a word not often used for this bolshie variety, such is the Bleasdale way. This has youth on its side so it’s bright and easy. In time it will garner more complexity. Can you wait? Drink by 2040.
95 Points
Jane Faulkner - James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion