Milbrandt 2008 The Estates Malbec (Wahluke Slope)

Country: US / Washington
Variety: Malbec
Winery: Milbrandt / The Estates

The grape’s fruit flavors of blackberry and black cherry are nicely focused and rounded, but the vanilla and tobacco components, perhaps from aggressive oak treatment, bring in a bit of bitterness to the tannins. It’s a fight to the finish—fruit or tannin—and too soon to pick a winner.