Imagery Estate Winery, Pine Mountain-Cloverdale Peak (Sonoma County, California) Malbec 2017

 I’m a big fan of this white pepper-driven style, which gives a beautiful layer of interest to the rich black and blue berry fruit, almost providing a picket fence between the two berry flavors – not fully separating them, but allowing them to be distinct.  The pepper keeps pushing to the end, A Platinum Award Winner at the 2020 San Diego International Wine & Spirits Challenge.