2011 Arboleda Carménère

Community Tasting Notes (3) Median Score: 89 points

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  4/13/2017 - Bandreas wrote:

  An obviously modern wine style: dark blueish red color, fruit forward and quite a bit of alcohol (14%). Soft at the end.
  It did go well with the leg of lamb and was tasty, but both my wife and I preferred the more conservative style of the Tarapacá Gran Reserva we tasted in Manaus.

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  8/3/2014 - Melster10 wrote: 92 Points

  Delicious peppery carmenere. On the Bermuda cruise.

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  10/9/2013 - forceberry wrote: 71 Points

  Concentrated and quite opaque dark ruby color. Surprisingly restrained and closed nose with typical Carménère aromas of herbaceous greenness, sweet stewed dark fruit, some wild strawberries and a hint of cooked bell pepper with an underlying streak of milk chocolate. Quite soft, rather sweet and mouthfillingly full-bodied on the palate with flavors of cooked bell peppers, green chili, overripe plums and some ripe raspberry-driven red fruit. The wine feels very low on tannins and modest-to-medium in acidity, giving the wine very round mouthfeel and no structure to speak of. The finish is soft, warm and juicy with sweet flavors of chocolate oak, overripe plums, some jammy dark berries and a hint of herbaceous green character.
  
  Ugh. A textbook example of modern Chilean Carménère: pungent capsicum aromas and overripe fruit paired with new oak, resulting in a wine with excessively sweet fruit character, homogeneous oak-drenched flavor profile and structure so soft the wine feels dull and flabby on its own and is quite impossible to be paired successfully with anything. Repulsive stuff. Why are all the wineries producing this kind of sweet, jammy plonk in Chile? Ridiculously overpriced at 16,99€ - I guessed this couldn't be more than 10€.

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