Hey friends and wine lovers welcome back, I'm Marc Supsic, wine and spirits professional
and creator of Wine Living. I love French Malbec; it's one of my
favorite wines in the whole world and I particularly love these wines from
Clos Triguedina. This winery is located in Cahors, France and they were kind enough
to send me some samples from my last video so we're gonna talk about those today.
Clos Triguedina has been around since 1830, and to this day it's still
run by the same family the Baldés family. It's currently run by Jean-Luc
and his wife Sabine. At one point in time the winery was a popular rest stop along
the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and this is supposedly where
the name for the winery comes from. In the local Occitan language,
"Me Trigo de Dina," means "I am hungry" or "I'm longing for dinner."
The first wine is an entry-level wine, simply called Malbec du Clos. In French, "Clos"
is an enclosure, so probably a stone wall around the outside of the winery.
Malbec du Clos is made from 100% Malbec, or, COT as they call it in the region.
And as you can see right off the bat it's a lot lighter than your typical Argentine Malbec.
Wow it's just so fresh and clean,
there's nothing but fruit there. It's all cranberry and red currant. Oh my god,
it's so tart and fresh and crisp. We ain't in Argentina, folks, and we don't want to be
right now. This is unapologetically French. This is
French Malbec! Fresh and clean light - it's like a laser focused right on my tongue.
Full of cranberries and red currants, and it's just screaming out for
some savory food to go along with it. for the price point this Malbec du Clos
is a fantastic entry-level French Malbec it's a great food friendly wine that I would
say probably goes best with poultry. I can picture it with either turkey for
Thanksgiving or even a roasted chicken. Let's move on to the next wine because I think it's going to get even better.
This is their "Clos Triguedina" label, this one here has about 8 years of age on it, it's from 2011.
I love older Malbec this isgonna be really fun to try well. Just look how dark that is!
Malbec used to be called "the black wine" at one point in time and this is why.
It is intense! I can smell it before I even got it up to my nose...
first off it's got a funky, musky aroma, which is not uncommon for older wine. I happen to love that.
Whoo doggy! That is intense. That is a big one.
It's "chewy" as we call it in the wine business... Red and black currant...
black raspberries in there. There's that funkiness - sort of like a leather and tobacco
which is typical for a wine that's starting to get up there in age.
It has a long, lingering finish of vanilla and then it fades away,
to this interesting flavor of like eucalyptus or mint.
A much more intense and bold wine than the prior one, but clearly still coming from
the same family; you can tell the the flavor profile is still sort of there.
There's that tartness, there's that cranberry, there's that freshness,
but this one obviously being older, has a lot more complexity to it. There's a lot
more going on in this glass. That's a perfect example of what aged French
Malbec should be like. And I would say if you're gonna pair this up with food,
while in the southwest of France, duck is pretty traditional and it's great with
red wine, I would go even bigger than that.
I would go with, like a grilled steak with gorgonzola butter on it,
or maybe some grilled lamb chops with that mint jelly, because the mint jelly
is really gonna partner up with that mintyness in the wine too.
So there you have it, two fantastic examples of what French Malbec can do.
Thanks so much to Clos Triguedina for the opportunity to check out these beautiful wines
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