My latest email from Cracka:
Get in maaa belly!
Here it is, the most entertaining red wine to pass through the wine-stained halls of Cracka Wines HQ since wheels were square!
This
Fat cough Mendoza Malbec comes from the high altitude vineyards of Argentina, and, as the name suggests, it's a gloriously rich, juicy expression of Mendozan Malbec magic, full of sweet berry fruits with a savoury backbone.
Forget the name though as this is surprisingly serious vino. Fat cough is a partnership between Rhone Valley winemaker Thierry Boudinaud and English marketer Guy Anderson. The story goes that when Guy came to visit he tried a wine that had been kept on lees for longer - a decadent, beast of a wine that they decided was a real fat cough.
That set the benchmark for a whole range of wines that are all deliberately fat and full-flavoured. There's a rich and toasty Californian Chardonnay, a smart French Pinot and this, a chunky Malbec.
We tried this in a lineup of other, much more seriously named wines and it absolutely killed it. Especially when we discovered the price. Normally $20, this is a helluva lot of Argie Malbec that you can have for
$13.80/bottle!
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