We do some wine tasting too!

Last year in April (2020) we did a short run of reviewing some Aldi wines. For those who don’t know, Aldis has a pretty respectable selection of wines at Aldi’s prices.

I kept a few notes on a few tastings because we were planning on possibly doing some recordings or video shoots with them.

One of the first wines we had was a 2018 Argentinian Malbec from Evanta. This one had a year of aging on it already. (2018 grapes, released in 2019) We thought this was a very good wine, and at the $5.00 point.. Great choice we thought. At this point I just have some small notes written for the 2018..

Good body. Smells like black cherry. Plums. Is that strawberry?
Not much there, but we did like this one.  

We also found that the 2019 version was also just released, so we picked that up as well. This version was fresh. 2019 grapes and released in early 2020. It was good, but very “new” tasting. So we decided to go back and get another bottle to keep for a year and see what happens when you give a $5 bottle of new wine some time to develop.

Here is the notes that I took drinking fresh 2019 Evanta Malbec from Aldis..

First aromas are very one-sided. Concord grape, with a bit of alcohol.  Thats it.
 I expected to have far more taste. the aromas were just one note,, the tastes were also somewhat weak.
Anyone who has made their own wine will recognize the taste here. New..very new wine. It even has that particulate feel of a new wine.

Very tannic and oakey with the thinner body makes it feel a bit harsh,, but not offensive.
While on the dry side, I would not consider this a dry wine at all. It stops short of that, but the tannin makes it feel dryer

Everything about this wine is one dimentional.. But because it feels so new, I suspect that will change over the next year or so.

The warmer i let my glass get the more that subtle tastes start to emerge,, but only slightly.
I smell a bit of green banana now,, but tastes of plums a bit. But they never get more than just hints.

I think i’ll have to go get a second bottle of this and set it aside till next year. Its a decent wine now but after that oak fades and it get a bit of age to mellow things,, this may be a really good Malbec, like the 2018 was

So sounds like it was a decent wine,, just too new. Well I’m getting ready to open the bottle this week that I have been saving since last April. I will find the same glass, and I’ll even head out to the garage studio for the same ambiance. 

There is time to hit up Aldi’s for a bottle of the 2019 Evanta Malbec in a blue bottle if they still have it. Then you can taste along with me in a few days.