2015 Mundus Bacillus Terrae 1500ml

98 POINTS

James Suckling

This is a phenomenal malbec with intense blue fruits such as blueberries and blackberries. Black truffle, too. Full-bodied, bright and juicy with fantastic power and richness. Yet the acidity just keeps going. Volcanic salt and white peppers. A thoroughly breathtaking wine. Try after 2020.

96 POINTS

Stephen Tanzer - Vinous

(14.5% alcohol, with a pH of 3.4 and acidity of 7.2 grams per liter): Dark, bright ruby. Compellingly high-pitched and pure on the nose, offering scents of boysenberry, bitter chocolate, violet, crushed rock and juniper. Then wonderfully chewy and energetic, conveying outstanding inner-mouth rocky perfume and a distinct whole-cluster pungency to its flavors of boysenberry and bitter chocolate. Really extraordinary intensity without weight, like a top Vosne-Romanée. With its perfectly buffered tannins, great suavity and purity and inexorable slowly mounting finish, this wine struck me as a new dimension for Argentine Malbec.

96 POINTS

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

From what many have called a Bordelais year, the 2015 Adrianna Vineyard Mundus Bacillus Terrae is slightly riper and a little lower in acidity, meaning it's more "civilized" than the previous and following vintages. All three years come from the same shallow soils that are rich in limestone and have a similar vinification and upbringing. These 2015s are more marked by the vintage than the other two, which seem to be more transparent to the terroir. This is my favorite of the 2015s. 4,800 bottles were filled in July 2017.

95 POINTS

Alistair Cooper MW - Decanter

From the cooler summer of 2015 comes this stunningly fresh, vivid and beguiling wine. It's so young yet has all the hallmarks of the site: a combination of savoury and sweet notes, a real creaminess and roundness on the palate, with rounded, chalky, firm tannins and stunning acidity leading to a long finish. It displays blueberry fruit, fig compote, cedar spice and a saline minerality that really stands out in this vintage, but it's so tightly coiled at the moment - a sleeping giant.