2019 Susana Balbo Nosotros Nomade

Bid on this 6-bottle lot of 2019 Susana Balbo Nosotros Nómade (99JS, 94RP), the flagship Malbec from Susana Balbo, Argentina’s first female winemaker, and James Suckling’s Argentine Wine of the Year, ranked #1 on his Top 100 Wines of Argentina 2022. True to its “Nómade” name, the wine is sourced each year from whichever single vineyard performs best. In 2019, one of the estate’s best harvests in two decades, that was a 36-year-old Malbec vineyard at 1,150 meters in Paraje Altamira in the Uco Valley. It is aged 16 months in French barrels, 80% new. Expect black cherry, cassis, blackberry and plum layered with violet, vanilla, dark chocolate and crushed stone, on a juicy, round, plush, medium- to full-bodied palate with velvety tannins and a remarkably persistent finish. A collector’s case-quantity lot of one of the greatest Malbecs ever made in Argentina.