Zonte’s Footstep Violet Beauregard Malbec 2019

  • 94
  • $30
  • Drink by: 2020 - 2027

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Ah malbec, beautiful fruity opulent malbec. An underrated linchpin for many outstanding Aussie red wines but which often strikes a blow for the underdog. In fact, more winemakers are finally using malbec as a straight varietal, and not before time.

I have always liked this malbec, which is sourced from South Australia’s Langhorne Creek, where the combination of climate, soils and regionality
seem so suited to the highly drinkable nature of the variety. There’s a really engaging perfumed blue fruit character here that reveals on the nose. This plus a juicy palate screams malbec before delivering with a soft and supple pure expression of fruit. Purchase the wine here.

Ray Jordan
Wine critic, author and journalist at Winepilot

Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.

Wine writing
Pilot
Ray Jordan
Date
Variety: Red Wine, Malbec
Categories: Drinks, Favourites, Australian Wines