This may be the most expensive Malbec in California, but it’s a really good wine that is full-bodied and deeply flavored. Like a great Cabernet, it shows polished black currant, spicy plum and new-oak flavors, with wonderfully rich, sweet tannins and soft acids. So easy to drink, so delicious now, but you might try cellaring it through 2010. ——S.H.(12/1/2006)—— 92