Vilafonté Series M 2019 Bottle size: 750ml

‘This excellent vintage has yielded a truly impressive wine for the Vilafonte team displaying a brilliant and intense ruby and red plum hue. The aromatics are expansive and hedonistic sending notes of violets and crushed red cherries, raspberries and pressed rose petals soaring out the glass with confidence and vigour. Fabulously complex and intricate, attractive notes of wild berries and red currant follow to the dense, full bodied palate that boasts a broad seductive array of black liquorice and black plum, cocoa powder and brown toast crust nuances. The Malbec and Merlot are like a marriage made in heaven, offering svelte supple tannins and a texture that wraps its arms around you in the most comforting embrace. With time in the glass, the full fleshy palate shows further layers of baked plums, blue berries and red cherries all underpinned by fresh vital acids. This is most definitely one of the most powerful, potent and heady wines produced in the Series M range to date displaying an impressively ample fine wine self-confident personality. Drink this wine in its youth or cellar for 20+ years.’ – Greg Sherwood MW, 97/100

‘Coming from the smallest vintage per hectare since Vilafonté started, the 2019 Series M offers incredible concentration and focus on the nose, which is marked with oak, ripe plum and dark cherry skin aromas before delicate dusty roses and lavender notes waft from the glass. The wine compresses on the palate to reveal a firm tannic structure with brilliant, energetic acidity that is slightly nervous now but will benefit from one more year in the bottle and age like a champion. Just give it time, and your patience will be rewarded. Even though they had low yields, the quality is evident and paramount. It’s a stunner! 2024-2042’ – Anthony Mueller, Wine Advocate, 95+/100