This wine you’re unlikely to find anywhere, as it’s a farm-produced wine not sold in stores. While it claims to be semi-seco, that’s only by Peruvian standards, and Peruvians prefer sickeningly sweet wines. As a result, this artisanal Malbec is very sweet, with the sugar outweighing nearly any other notes that a Malbec might otherwise produce.

Having said that, applying some understanding of the likes of the average Peruvian wine drinker, it’s not terrible. The sugar is there, sure, but there’s enough body behind it to provide a modicum of sophistication. The grapes were apparently imported from Chile, Peru’s mortal enemy, and then processed in Ica, rather than using grapes from the region, so that’s weird. But it’s indicative of the long road Peruvian wine has to travel to get to anything near acceptance by the world at large, since the wine producers are stuck on making wines for domestic consumption, and the average domestic consumer is utterly uneducated about wine, allowing some fairly sweet garbage onto their tables without much notice.

If you can find it, this Lengua Manolo it would be a fun treat, if only for the novelty.