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Val de Flores
Country of Origin: Argentina
Location: Uco Valley
People: Michel Rolland
Supplier: http://www.vineconnections.com


After years of consulting for some of most well-known wineries in Mendoza, Michel Rolland got to know his favorite vineyard lots. Every winemaker has their favorites – the wines that year-in, year-out speak to them in a special voice. And then one year, Michel noticed that one of his favorites was missing. When he learned that the vineyard was for sale, he sprang into action by purchasing the vineyard and launched a new single-vineyard brand named Val de Flores, modeled after his estate in Pomerol.

Together with his wife Dany, Michel has invested his energy and passion into this small vineyard. Primarily planted to Malbec in the 1940s and 1950s, the vineyard is situated at the foot of the Andean mountain range in Vista Flores (in the southern Uco Valley). The view is breathtaking: row after row of vines bordered with rose bushes and olive trees with snow-topped peaks in the background, all basking in wonderful sunshine under a vast, incredibly blue sky. Each year, a single wine is produced from a process that is focused on selecting only the best fruit and best the vineyard can offer.
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Val de Flores 2007 Malbec, Mendoza Net Price Reviews —
Reviews
Val de Flores 2007 Malbec, Mendoza
Rating: 92

The 2007 Val de Flores Malbec was sourced from vines over 50 years of age and aged in French oak for 14 months. It is a glass-coating opaque purple color with an expressive bouquet of balsam wood, Asian spices, incense, lavender, black cherry, and blueberry. Full-bodied and mouth-coating, this intensely flavored, impeccably balanced Malbec has the stuffing to evolve for several more years and will offer a drinking window extending from 2013 to 2022.

- The Wine Advocate (12/1/2010)