Caliterra

Winemaker Comment

It has dark ruby red dyes when tilting the glass.The nose is impressive. It’s being tasted before seeing the light of day so it is young, strong, with powerful fruit. It shows its potential for aging which would be more than a decade.

Furthermore, of the three versions this is the freshest and liveliest. In the mouth it fills as few wines can. With an almost oily smoothness, but at the same time marking a nerve that makes it very tasty. As his brother predecessor, it has a virtually indefinite length. Should decant and serve at 18 °C.

Vintage Note

Harvest 2007 will be remembered through out the country as one of the best. For Caliterra, it has been the best ever. As the weather reports show, this season allowed us to manipulate and wait for ripeness as much as we wanted. We did not have rain showers as an obstacle to determine the precise moment to harvest. This year we presented a new approach for our vineyard, which consists of equally working the heterogeneity of the different sectors. With the help of high end technology, we were able to distinguish each individual plant from the other according to the level of detail desired to get homogeneous fruit.

In this vintage 2007 we started using the Polygonal Harvest System, this process allows us to obtain first class grapes. With the use of new technological systems and satellite infrared photos, we are able to find the level of maturity from each vine and group them in specific polygons. With this information, harvest is done following the specific polygons allowing us to harvest homogeneous fruit at optimal ripeness.
As a collateral effect of this detailed differentiation at the vineyard, there has been a decrease of the alcoholic level in the wines because by crafting only optimal ripe fruit in the stainless steel tanks, sugar levels have decreased and consequently alcohol levels have diminished.

Fermentation and Aging

With this third version of Cenit, we again show the course which was defined from the beginning. A proposal of great character and conviction, thus showing its own distinctive stamp.

The 2007 comes with no variety having the absolute majority. The reign of Cabernet Sauvignon has given way to the other two varieties that shape it, Malbec and Petit Verdot. Already in the 2006 version, a 20% of Petit Verdot was included which we repeat this year. The other two varieties are almost tying around 40% each.

As previous years, 18 months had to pass before this wine was ready to be blended and bottled. It waited that long in oak barrels divided in 90% French and 10% American. In its first winter malolactic fermentation slowly took place before the first of five rackings in total.