Community Tasting Notes 9

• spendergast Likes this wine: 93 points

  August 13, 2023 - Decanted 2 hrs. - Notes of black raspberry, cassis, plum with hint of minerals and spice. This wine is well balanced and has a long satisfying finish. Paired with grilled Wagyu ribeye steaks.

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• Simoncino wrote: 92 points

  December 13, 2015 - Giving this wine 91.5, thus rounded. Five years have passed since I tasted it in Chile. Ge is a very well-made wine; it is not a complex wine. It clearly tells you where it comes from. I have one more bottle. Would love to pair it blind with a Don Melchor from the same vintage. No need to cellar this for years. The 2005 (also 2007) was a great year for wine in Chile. Enjoy.

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• champ12oh Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 30, 2015 - Daniel, Ibyron, and Kopanski have the flavor profile nailed--would have been hard to pin this as Chile (...and I like the rustic, barnyard tag). Pop n pour day 1 with similar notes. Tonight (day 2) the alcohol and oak were totally integrated and seamless so the palate was still showing dark and blue on the spectrum. Makes me think it has some legs to age and the vessel is conducive if that is your intent. The only thing that makes me think "old" is the raisin aromatic note but that might just be the phenolics. Definitely quality material. I'm in the 92-93 range at this stage because I love the graphite minerality and tonight it's showy and dense. Rare juice. If you love Napa style or Bordeaux in the modern era, then there is no need to wait. True, not all that elegant but dang, it's no slouch and it's tasty. Biodynamic.

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• DanielPasalic Likes this wine: 90 points

  May 18, 2013 - Apperiance:
  The wine is clear, deep ruby with distinct legs.
  Nose:
  Clean, pronounced intensity of black fruits (blueberry, blackberry) acomplished with dried fruit (kirsch, raisin) and jamiminess. Slightly herbal notes of lavender and oak (cedar, toast) and sweet spice, vanilla and liquorice. The wine is developing:
  Palate:
  The wine is dry, medium acidity and medium (+) integrated and soft tannins. It has high slightly hot alcohol with medium full body and medium (+) flavour intensity of black fruit (blueberry, blackberry) sweet (clove, ginger) and punget spice (liquorice and juniper) with oak impact (coffe, charred wood). The finish is medium
  long.
  Very good. The wine has a great and rich flavour structure with very good balance between acidity and ripe frutiness with well integrated tannins. The wine has massive contentration and the concentrated fruit is able to absorb the high lever of oak. Perhaps the alcohol is a little on the hot side and not totally integrated in the finish. However with some lower acidity and overwhelmd warm and ripe fruit, the wine is lacking elegance.
  Drink now, but has potential for ageing. The fruit and tannins are in balance now, but the wine has a lot of extract, indicting it is capable of further evolution over at least 5-7 years before it reaches its peak.

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• iByron wrote: 90 points

  April 24, 2012 - Deep red purple, clings to glass (from the Carmènére, no doubt) but not visually "thick." Big fruity nose of plum and blackberry in leather. Palate echoes the nose with more "oomph!" and some graphite from mid-palate to finish. Medium body and mild tannins give it crowd-pleasing potential. Complexity on the palate -- that develops quite nicely in the glass -- should make the wineaux happy. Current vintage is 2008stay this is right where it should be. Drink now, or within three to five years.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Emiliana
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation Gê
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Chile
• Region Rapel Valley
• SubRegion Colchagua Valley
• Appellation n/a

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• Consumed 62 (48%)

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