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
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Ortiz even produces a limited-edition Wapisa Malbec aged in bottle under seawater for several months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
All the wines I purchased cost less than $20 a bottle, as most bottles had when I wrote about Malbec in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
The Catena family produces Malbecs, under various labels, ranging from the $12 Alamos Malbec to single-vineyard wines that cost hundreds of dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
Have American wine drinkers fallen out of love with Argentine Malbec?
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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