Tasting - Ruta 22 Malbec

Name: Ruta 22 Malbec
Variety: Malbec
Region: Patagonia
Country: Argentina
Year: 2011
Price: $7.95

Critic Review:  "Stout and dense from the beginning, with blackberry and violet aromas. Despite being a bold and dark Malbec, this is fresh and composed, with sweet blackberry and cassis flavors. Good on the finish, with candied fruit and caramel sweetness."

My Review:  This Malbec wine did not have a pleasant smell.  It smelled way too much like hard liquor.  The taste was not very good either.  I could taste too much alcohol in this wine, and it was overpowering the other tastes.  I could taste a hint of blackberry and tartness, but the bitter and strong alcohol taste was too much for me to handle.

I tasted this wine without food.