2022 Bleasdale Vineyards Generations Malbec

96 POINTS

Langhorne Creek Wine Show

Trophy for Champion Wine of Show - 2024

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James Halliday - Halliday's Wine Companion

The fruit comes from three estate blocks and two specialist growers; open fermented with 20% whole berries; on skins eight to 12 days; matured for 12 months in French puncheons (10% new). Deeply coloured, the bouquet and palate hunt as one, with intense aromas of black fruits and clove spice joined by plums on the unexpectedly elegant palate. Bleasdale is the king of Malbec.

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National Wine Show of Australia

Trophy + Top Gold for Red Wine Varietal

94 POINTS

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

What Bleasdale is doing with malbec is pretty remarkable. These are genuinely good wines, as neat as they are characterful. They are not, it’s probably worth saying, either overblown or underdone; they taste as though they’ve been picked optimally. Indeed the most generous thing about this wine is the asking price. It tastes of fragrant berries, red and black, rust, violets, peppercorn and cedar. It boasts firm, integrated tannin, infused here with licorice. It’s excellent, and it will mature over a long period.