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Bodega Piedra Negra Chacayes
Bodega Piedra Negra Chacayes

2015 / 750 ml.

JS9797 pts. - JamesSuckling.com - Thursday, December 27, 2018
This is a powerful and dense red that remains agile and vivid. Dark berries, wet earth and sweet tobacco. Intense and full of character. The tannin texture is exceptional. Great length and class. Superb wine. Better in 2021.
SP9696 pts. - Wine Spectator - Jun 30, 2020
Very elegant and rich, with concentrated kirsch, dark plum and cherry tart flavors, backed by medium-grained tannins and fresh acidity. Shows grip midpalate, leading to a finish that turns creamy and plush, primed with spicy richness and chocolate mousse accents. Malbec. Drink now through 2027. 3,000 cases made. (Kim Marcus)
RP9292 pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 31st Oct 2019
The youthful 2015 Chacayes was still marked by its élevage in new French oak barrels for two years. This is a blend of 90% Malbec (they say 50% Malbec and 40% Côt) and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. It has good ripeness and concentration, with good fruit, but it’s excessively oaky for my taste. Wait and see. 4,000 bottles were filled in December 2017.
VN9191 pts. - Vinous - Oct 2020
A 50/50 blend of Malbec and Côt from Los Chacayes, aged for 18 months in new French oak. In the glass, it is a dense, concentrated purple. The alluring nose offers notes of violet, plum, country and medicinal herbs and elderflower. Concentrated on the palate, it has an accomplished maturity and breathtaking intensity. All this is achieved from tightly packed plants — 20,000 per hectare — in a sunny, cool region. Powerful, with a structure enhanced by the oak.
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Cheval des Andes
Cheval des Andes

2018 / 750 ml.

RP9898 pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 16th Sep 2021
The 2018 Cheval des Andes is a blend of 70% Malbec and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon fermented in small lots in 3,000- to 8,000-liter tanks and matured 40% in 225-liter oak barrels, 40% in 400-liter oak barrels and the remaining 20% in 2,500-liter oak vats for 13 months. Ninety percent of the oak used was French and the rest a blend of Austrian, Slovenian and German oak, 50% of it new. 2018 has been one of the best vintages in recent times in Mendoza, and the wine shows it. It’s a cooler vintage, and the wine has improved in freshness and elegance without losing any clout. It’s 14.5% alcohol and has a pH of 3.73. This is young, juicy, elegant and balanced and still has some herbal and toasted notes; it’s medium to full-bodied, with the creamy and luxurious texture of the modern Bordeaux, ultra fine tannins and a long, dry and precise finish. It’s still undeveloped and seems to have all the components and the balance between them for a long and positive development in bottle. With wines like this, I sometimes wish I had a time machine so I could see them in 20 years from now… I think this is the finest Cheval des Andes I’ve ever tasted. 100,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2020.
JS9898 pts. - JamesSuckling.com - Friday, December 4, 2020
This is a plush, rich Cheval with blueberry and floral aromas and flavors. HInts of tar and fresh lavender. Full body. The depth and richness are impressive, as are the ripe yet fresh tannins. Very long and structured, yet controlled and in balance. This will be a great wine indeed. Release in September 2021. Drink after 2023.
VN9696 pts. - Vinous - Nov 2021
The 2018 Cheval Des Andes is a blend of 70% Malbec — half from Las Compuertas and half from Paraje Altamira — and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon from Las Compuertas. It was aged in barrels and foudres, 50% in new oak. Purplish red in the glass. It shows an expressively complex nose of plum, cherry and hints of spice, pepper, ink, blackberry, and blackcurrant. The oak provides a profound and subtle backdrop of sweet spice. In the mouth, it’s viscous and broad with a little juice, velvety in texture and with very fine tannins. The finish is long-lasting with a satisfying feel. A relaxed, delicate, extremely well-balanced wine with a more generous core than the 2017 vintage.
SP9292 pts. - Wine Spectator - Mar 31, 2022
Big and rich, with expressive beef and earthy notes to the dark plum and roasted dark cherry flavors, which are backed by firm tannins and acidity. Creamy in the midpalate, with hints of dried green herbs and dark chocolate on the finish. Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink now through 2026. 7,500 cases made, 2,500 cases imported. (Kim Marcus)
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Zuccardi Finca Canal Uco
Zuccardi Finca Canal Uco

Paraje Altamira
2019 / 750 ml.

JS9898 pts. - JamesSuckling.com - Tuesday, August 9, 2022
What a nose, garnering complexity and depth. A wide spectrum of aromas that range from blackberries and blueberries to graphite, tree bark and wet earth. A medium-to full-bodied red, showing so much fleshy fruit and powerful, chalky tannins. But never imposing nor flattering. Impeccable poise, with a long, tight finish. This is the kind of wine that you can drink now or lay down for two decades. Better from 2025.
VN9797 pts. - Vinous - Nov 2021
The 2019 Malbec Finca Caral Uco hails from Uco Valley and was made in concrete vats. Intense purple in hue. The nose, initially shy, grows increasingly nuanced and intense with time in the glass. It presents notes of cherry, plum, thyme and hints of bay leaf, violet, lavender and other herbs accompanied by an unusual whiff of pink grapefruit. Pristine and elemental in style, this is a textured red in which the fine-grained tannins deliver plenty of chalk, as well as crisp, juicy freshness. More intense and layered than other wines from the house, the formidable fruit flavors are part of a raw, unfiltered expression of the terroir. (Joaquín Hidalgo)
RP96+96+ pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 30th Nov 2022
The 2019 Finca Canal Uco comes from the historical part of Altamira only across the street from their Piedra Infinita vineyard, where the soils are slightly deeper and with a little less limestone and the grapes achieve more ripeness and deliver slightly more generous wines. They planted this vineyard 12 years ago—it was previously planted to apple trees. They have subdivided this 50-hectare vineyard into 40 different plots. The soils are heterogeneous, and they don’t use the stonier soil and also avoid the deeper soils; so, they do a selection, ferment with some stems by plot and then do the blend of some 15 different parts of the vineyard. In Sebastian Zuccardi’s words, they deconstruct the vineyard and then build the wines from the block. This has a combination of the characteristics that are juicier and make you salivate and the limestone, trying to take the best from both worlds. It has some flowers and also iron and blood and is medium to full-bodied, with good ripeness and the house style of seriousness, balance and elegance within the natural power and intensity of the place. This also matured exclusively in concrete without epoxy coating, raw concrete. 11,900 bottles were filled in June 2020. (Luis Gutiérrez)
SP9393 pts. - Wine Spectator - Oct 31, 2022
Beautifully aromatic, showing blood orange and perfumed plum aromas that fold over onto the creamy and velvety palate, with a hint of smoke lying beneath the core of lively plum and Rainer cherry. Ends with firming tannins and a hint of verbena and chalky minerality. Drink now through 2032. 500 cases made, 450 cases imported. (Aaron Romano)
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Cheval des Andes
Cheval des Andes

2019 / 750 ml.

RP9898 pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 30th Nov 2022
The 2019 Cheval des Andes has a more reductive vinification and élevage, making the wine a bit shy and in need of time to open up, as one of their objectives was to make it more age-worthy. Another objective is to get to a 50/50 blend of Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon, which they achieved in this vintage for the first time, going back to the initial character of the wine, which was the idea of Argentinean winemaker Roberto de la Mota; so, they are closing the circle and going back to the initial idea, with more suggestions from the Cheval Blanc team. This is the first vintage fully under the charge of the new French winemaker, Gerald Gabillet, who fermented by plot, isolating some specific parts of the vineyard, like the borders where you tend to get higher yields because of the irrigation. It matured in 225- and 400-liter oak barrels and in oak vats. They used more barrels and vats from Stockinger, which they like and rotate; the wine spends an average of 13 to 14 months in oak, but some lots get 11 months and others get 16. 2019 was a mild vintage, cooler than 2017 and warmer than 2018, with rain at the right time, which helped to avoid hydric stress, and without extremes (which they had in 2020 with three weeks of extreme heat). The wine is young and tender and a bit oaky, which Gabillet attributed to the reductiveness; it’s ripe without excess, with around 14.2% alcohol, mellow acidity and velvety tannins. There’s more Cabernet here, so the aromatic expression can be something between 2017 and 2018, but Cabernet marks the palate a lot and makes the wine more age-worthy, as it provides the structure and length that the Malbec lacks. So, the wine might be less accessible when young and should develop slowly in bottle. It’s tasty and supple and has the ingredients and the balance for what they are aiming for. In the following vintages, they follow this path, and Gabillet feels that having more precision allows the wines to reflect the differences between vintages better. They produce around 100,000 bottles. It was bottled in late January 2021. The way they want to describe the wine is the Argentinean expression of Cheval Blanc. And I can only agree. (Luis Gutiérrez)
VN9797 pts. - Vinous - Nov 2021
The 2019 Cheval des Andes is a 50/50 blend of Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon from Las Compuertas and Paraje Altamira, Mendoza. The 2019 was 40% aged in 225-liter barrels, 40% in 500-liter barrels and 20% in foudres. It’s red with violet flecks in the glass. It has a fresh nose of plum and blackcurrant accompanied by hints of white pepper, mint and violets over a bed of cedar and sandalwood. On the palate, the feel is finely grained with a leaner, more agile flow than in previous years, while the freshness brings plenty of energy before the lengthy finish of fruit and country herb aromas. (Joaquín Hidalgo)
JS9797 pts. - JamesSuckling.com - Wednesday, November 30, 2022
A refined but spicy Cheval, showing charcoal, blueberries, wild herbs, lavender and hints of bacon and cedar. Medium to full body with extremely fine tannins that get dialed into the fruit with violet, spices and sweet blue fruit at the end. Long and subtle. Drink or hold.
SP9393 pts. - Wine Spectator - Nov 15, 2022
A bold and structured red, with aromas of smoke and graphite leading to rich, concentrated tiers of blackberry, cassis and plum. Beneath the muscle is ample fresh acidity, carrying abundant violet and spice nuances toward the lengthy finish, which reveals fine tannins. Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink now through 2034. 8,500 cases made, 2,975 cases imported. (Aaron Romano)
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Trivento Eolo
Trivento Eolo

2018 / 750 ml.

RP9595 pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 30th Nov 2022
The 2018 Eolo comes from a vineyard planted in 1912 on the banks of the Mendoza River, four hectares in Luján de Cuyo. It fermented with selected yeasts and matured for 18 months 50% in new French oak barrels and 50% in oak foudre. It’s a powerful Malbec with 14.5% alcohol, good concentration and balance and is a little closed and quite young. It’s aromatic and floral with sweet spices, classical and with typical Luján character. It continues on the path toward freshness initiated some years ago. 13,300 bottles were filled in November 2019. (Luis Gutiérrez)
WE9494 pts. - Wine Enthusiast - 9/1/2022
Great complexity on the nose with enticing floral, blackberry, plum and subtle oak notes. This red is concentrated and lively with firm and silky tannins. The palate delivers plenty of dark fruit flavors with hints of smoke and nice acidity due to a smart use of oak. It is an elegant full-bodied wine made from 100 year old vines, and has a lingering finish with fruit flavors. (Jesica Vargas)
VN9494 pts. - Vinous - Nov 2021
Trivento’s 2018 Malbec Eolo from Vistalba, Luján de Cuyo was aged for 16 months, 50% in varied use toasted barrels and 50% in foudres. Dark purple in the glass, the complex aromas include ripe plum, blackberry and blueberry with pepper and notes from the aging process such as cedar and vanilla. Broad and voluminous on the palate, the precise freshness livens up the flow and lends depth. (Joaquín Hidalgo)
JS9393 pts. - JamesSuckling.com - Thursday, April 8, 2021
Ripe-plum, blueberry, lavender and cocoa aromas. It’s full-bodied with ripe, rounded tannins. Smooth and seamless, almost buttery, with layers of dark fruit and sweet spice. Fresh mid-palate, but leads to a long, evolving finish. Drink or hold.
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Explore Top Malbec Wines For Under $100

Why Choose Malbec Wines?

Malbec wines come from places like Uco Valley, Mendoza, and Lujan de Cuyo. They are known for their deep, dark fruit tastes and smooth chocolate finish. These wines are rich and offer notes of vanilla and spice, making them perfect for red meats and hearty pastas. Choosing a Malbec under $100 lets you enjoy these luxurious flavors affordably. Our selection includes well-known brands such as Bodega Piedra Negra, Cheval des Andes, Zuccardi, and Trivento. These Malbecs provide a premium experience at a great price. They are ideal for both wine lovers and those new to wine, offering an impressive taste experience.

Tips for Enjoying Your Malbec Wines

To enhance your experience with Malbec wines, serve them at a slightly cool room temperature, ideally around 65°F to 70°F. This temperature range helps to bring out the rich flavors and smooth texture of the wine. Malbec pairs wonderfully with robust dishes such as grilled meats, hearty stews, and strong cheeses. For an optimal tasting experience, allow the wine to breathe for at least 30 minutes before serving. This simple step helps to release more of its distinctive aromas and flavors, making your sipping experience even more enjoyable.

Frequently Asked Questions About Malbec Wines Under $100

Can I find a good Malbec wine under $100?

Absolutely! Malbec is known for its rich, dark fruit flavors and smooth finish, and there are excellent options under $100. These wines often deliver a robust experience with notes of blackberry, plum, and a hint of spice. Our curated list ensures you enjoy premium quality without breaking the bank.

How does the flavor profile of Malbec under $100 compare to more expensive Malbec wines?

While pricier Malbecs might feature more complexity and a longer finish, Malbec wines under $100 still offer a delightful tasting experience. These wines typically showcase a vibrant array of fruit flavors, balanced acidity, and soft tannins, making them both delicious and accessible.

Are there any highly rated Malbec wines available for under $100?

Yes, there are! Several Malbec wines under $100 have earned high ratings for their exceptional quality and value. These selections impress with their depth of flavor and overall balance, providing an excellent introduction to what the Malbec varietal has to offer.