
I sat down yesterday to chat with Luis Barraud and Paul Hobbs of Argentina’s Viña Cobos, tasting through a vertical of the winery’s top, single-vineyard Malbec bottling in the process. The Malbec Mendoza Marchiori Vineyard has become one of the country’s top bottlings since it debuted in the 1999 vintage. The wine has hit some serious highs in its short tenure, but the vertical tasting showed it’s also on an upward trajectory.
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