Community Tasting Notes 27

• WineTally Likes this wine:

  May 29, 2019 - 35% Carmenère, 30% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Sauvignon and 13% Malbec
  from the Apalta vineyards,Colchagua Appellation, Rapel Valley, Chile
  with 60 years old non irrigated vines.
  18-day fermentation followed by 15-day maceration.
  Aged 21 months in new French oak barrels.
  Bottled February 2001 unfined unfiltered.
  14% Abv.
  
  Proprietors: Cyril de Bournet, Alexandra Marnier Lapostolle and Charles de Bournet Marnier Lapostolle.
  
  From a Double Magnum:
  
  A(ccuracy)=2: Med deep ruby/brick edge. Evolved yet lively.
  B(alance)=3: Refined components in harmony.
  C(omplexity)=3: Layered fruit essence, chocolate, tobacco.
  D(epth)=1: Smooth mouthfeel. Average length and finish (likely due to age)
  
  Wine Tally Score [2,3,3,1] = 9/10
  
  Tasting much younger than its age.
  
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• efeldhake@yahoo.com Likes this wine: 92 points

  October 2, 2017 - Deep garnet with a slight bricking edge. Nose of dark cherries, dark chocolate, and leather. Tastes of cherries, crushed blackberries, dark chocolate, tar, and slight earthiness. Lovely fruit and structure. Still holding up well but at or just past prime. Drink over the next 3-5 years.

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• dshpilberg Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 5, 2016 - Mature but 5 - 7 years to go
  
  The nose increases dramatically as it breaths

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• Javachip wrote: 92 points

  December 12, 2015 - Allowed to breathe in glass 1 hour before tasting. Clear deep dark garnet color. Lovely fresh bouquet of boysenberries, cherries and black currants and their liqueurs, along with mocha, fennel, anise, hints of tobacco, nutmeg, cloves, and forest floor. Similar on the palate, full body, rich, generous, bit of brandy-like alcoholic heat despite the cool serving temperature. Mouth-coating tannins and firm acidity suggest many good years ahead. Improved with air and held up well under vacuum stopper for four days in refrigerator.

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• Milos wrote: 92 points

  August 16, 2014 - Blackberry and red cherry, quite ripe but not overripe; good acidity, intense palate with long finish; this still has some ways to go; kept improving over two days.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1999
• Type Red
• Producer Clos Apalta
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Chile
• Region Rapel Valley
• SubRegion Colchagua Valley
• Appellation Apalta
• UPC Code 7804387001123

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• In Cellars 190 (55%)
• Consumed 152 (44%)

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