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El Enemigo Malbec

Tracked vintages
10
Community notes
471
Merchant offers
55

What we know about this wine

Critics
92/ 1002023 vintage
Real drinkers
87/ 100471 notes, every vintage
Market price
£20per 75 cl2023 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
Drinking window
2022–2035peak2020 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 13,053 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Argentinian Mendoza Malbec Red.

Body3.9 / 5
LightFull
Acidity2.7 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin2.7 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness2.1 / 5
DrySweet
  • Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, dark chocolate
  • Black fruit · blackberry, plum, black fruit, dark fruit, blueberry
  • Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, cocoa, minerals
  • Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, red cherry
  • Spice · pepper, licorice, cinnamon, mint, eucalyptus
  • Floral · violet, lavender, perfume, jasmine, geranium

Grapes: Malbec. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£10–£29GBP per 75 cl · 8 priced vintages

2013One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2023

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Every score below is a critic score.

  • Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
  • Drinkinginside its stated window
  • Past its windowits window has closed
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2022
94 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2020
peak, window 2022–2035
Lowest price
2017
£10 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Malbec monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£10£202023£202022£142021£132019£222018£292017£102016£222013£19

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Malbec monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure
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Malbec monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2023£2092—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2022£1493.8—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
2021£1393—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2024
2019£2293Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2023
2018£2993—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2024
2017£1092.7Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2016£2291Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022
2013£1989Noper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, April 2017

Where to go next

LWIN 1371826