Nineteen Years in the Cask
Nineteen years in large old casks before bottling — one of the first Malbecs ever presented to the world as a fine wine. Half a century on, the core of the 1977 was still dark, and the wine had not fallen.
Mendoza
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Two, in Quechua
Iscay means 'two' in Quechua — two grapes, two winemakers, two countries. The Argentine half is Trapiche's Daniel Pi; the other half came from Santa Barbara. The year they made it in, Mendoza spent the summer behaving like Bordeaux.