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Red
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1999 Cousiño-Macul Cabernet Sauvignon Antiguas Reservas
Maipo Valley
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* Nose: Black currants, then leather, wood, some smoke. Later comes pencil led, prunes, dust and suddenly lots of vanilla.
*Taste & palate: Mature, sweet black currant and blueberry fruit. Medium rich body with a "slickness" typical of bottle ageing. Hints of burnt oak, but only a hint. Mature, rounded and slightly spicy, peppery tannins.
- Mature but surprisingly good and alive for this 16 YO Chilean CS. Reading earlier comments from around 10 years ago it seems that this, once probably over-oaked CS, has actually come around and reached some level of balance or harmony. It clearly has reached its peak but I think it might still drink well for another 1-3 years. After that, however... (I would not look forward to when it starts loosing much more of its fruit).
(Made from pre-phylloxera vines)
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Red
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2009 Concha y Toro Cabernet Sauvignon Casillero del Diablo Reserva
Maipo Valley
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Nose: Blackcurrant and wood, with a hint of shoe polish.
Taste & palate: Quite fruity, in a matured way, rounded/sweet wood tannins, medium to light body.
Fully drinkable but thoroughly, thoroughly unexciting. More or less as expected from a standard chilean CS - which is not to say that with this grape (and wood) material they could not have made a very much better and more interesting wine. But I guess that still sums up the sad state of standard / "middle of the road" Chilean CS.
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Red
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1998 De Martino Carménère
Maipo Valley
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Farge: Middels tett rød, litt mursteinsrød farge ytterst i kanten.
Duft: Rød paprika, litt røyk (fat), bjørnebær, etterhvert solbær.
Smak: Ganske tørr, men noe glatthet, en god del syre og noe tanniner, men også mye gjenværende frukt.
Grei rødvin alene, men mye bedre til krydret kjøttmat med litt fett. Klarte seg også utmerket etter et døgn åpen i kjøleskap. En forbausende god matvin.
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