Chile

Puente Alto

Medium

Cork

Round, forward and supple, lively and so expressive with crystalline red and black fruit. Really well constructed with a balance between the ripe fruit, crushed stone minerality, fresh and juicy acidities, minty aspects and lovely just-grainy tannins. Such signature style to this; smooth, carefully constructed with care - not to heavy or filling but glossy and smooth. Graceful, poised and finessed, really shows the pedigree of this wine from a cool vintage with touches of toast, liquorice, dark chocolate and leather but the fruit is still at the fore doing all the talking. Great to drink today, agile and totally moreish with delicate sweet hit on the mid palate that is so enjoyable with a Cabernet fresh menthol and liquorice finish. Wonderful sculpting and styling. Smooth and so easy to like! Feels restrained yet detailed. Even more enjoyable tasting the day after opening. Ageing 22 months in French oak barrels, 77% new. A cool year with lower than average temperatures for almost every month, including January. A lower heat summation than the previous three years. Veraison was therefore longer and more heterogeneous than usual with grapes reaching maturity at the end of April. One of three new library releases of Viñedo Chadwick entering the Place de Bordeaux in March. Owner Eduardo Chadwick, winemaker Francisco Baettig.

Cabernet Sauvignon

Viñedo Chadwick, Puente Alto, Maipo Valley, Chile, 2011

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Round, forward and supple, lively and so expressive with crystalline red and black fruit. Really well constructed with a balance

Viñedo Chadwick, Puente Alto, Maipo Valley, Chile, 2011

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