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Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 85.3 points

  • Moderately translucent black-red color. Pretty green-toned yet also rather sweet nose with aromas of herbaceous bell pepper character, ripe dark berries, some cherry marmalade, a little bit of smoky toasty character and a hint of ripe blackcurrant. The wine is full-bodied, very concentrated and rich with intense and somewhat sweet flavors of blackcurrant jam, soft and sweet dark plums, toasted spices, roasted bell peppers, some chocolate and a hint of cherry marmalade. The high alcohol makes the wine feel very warm, even somewhat hot. For a Chilean red wine this is surprisingly complex effort with moderately high acidity and firm, medium-to-moderate tannins. The finish is warm, rich and quite long with somewhat sweet yet a bit coarse flavors of bell peppers, ripe blackcurrants, plum juice, some blackberry jam, a little bit smoke and a touch of peppery oak spice.

    As a sworn hater of Chilean red wines and Carménère (especially Chilean Carménères) this is a surprisingly serious and impressive effort with quite convincing structure and nice complexity. Still, this wine really isn't my cup of tea at all - it is too rich, extracted and disturbingly sweet with way too much alcohol. This could be good as the pieces seem to be there, but the almost Parkerized winemaking makes the wine pretty off-putting. A good effort for a Carménère, but definitely not my cup of tea.

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