{"id":985,"count":1,"description":"In the dusky lens of a late-afternoon in Cahors, where the Lot River coils like an old story revisited, Malbec draws the eye\u2014and the palate\u2014into a world as velvety as the grape itself. Introduced to southwest France by monks as early as the 12th century, this once-noble variety was known as \"Auxerrois\" before earning its current name, likely a nod to a Hungarian peasant or a Bordeaux merchant, depending on which glass of legend you prefer. Long shadowed by old-world strictness and new-world swagger, Malbec has risen with quiet insistence from its ancestral banks, producing wines of brooding charm and tannic depth\u2014in Cahors, the grape must make up at least 70% of the blend, yielding robust reds born from limestone plateaus and gravelly terraces. Forget the overripe caricatures: here, Malbec is dusk in a bottle, its structure as grounded as a cathedral\u2019s nave, with a rustic bite that lingers like weathered stone. The ideal season? Late September\u2014just as harvest whispers through the vines and the truffle markets are awakening. Pack a book, pause by a river overlook, and let the tannins do the talking.  \nDiscover more layers of taste and time in our related features below.","link":"https:\/\/divineloire.fr\/en\/magazine\/tag\/malbec\/","name":"Malbec","slug":"malbec","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divineloire.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divineloire.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divineloire.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/divineloire.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=985"},{"href":"https:\/\/divineloire.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destinations?tags=985"},{"href":"https:\/\/divineloire.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publicite?tags=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}