Malbec
Britishnoun
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a black grape originally grown in the Bordeaux region of France and now in Argentina and Chile, used for making wine
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a rustic mid-bodied red wine made from this grape
Example Sentences
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The governor of Mendoza province, the center of Argentina’s wine industry, says he wants the country’s flagship Malbec wine to coexist with copper.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
That column’s title: “How Malbec Became the Wine of ‘Regular People.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
Malbec producers have continued to expand their operations into different places, including higher-altitude vineyards and cooler subregions in Mendoza.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
While Hedges concedes that the Argentine Malbec market has declined—“we’re not the shiny new object”—he still sees great value in it, he said: “It still offers a lot of bang for the buck.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
Dr. Geffard will stop whatever he is doing and open a bottle of Malbec and tell Marie-Laure in his whispery voice about reefs he visited as a young man: the Seychelles, Belize, Zanzibar.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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