- Apellation:
- Colchagua Valley
- Vineyard:
- Caliterra
- Composition:
- 60% Cabernet Franc
- 30% Petit Verdot
- 6% Carmenere
- 4% Syrah
- Alcohol:
- 14.5%
- Final pH:
- 3.52
- Total Acidity:
- 5.80 g/l (tartaric acid)
- Residual Sugar:
- 1.98 g/l
Tasting Notes
This wine is a deep cherry-red color with a ruby rim. The nose offers fresh aromas of wild fruits accompanied by spicy notes of black pepper, cloves, and tobacco complimented by an elegant touch of coffee. The palate impresses with its elegance and liveliness. Oak aging lends finesse and volume and promises long cellaring potential.
Fermentation and Aging
The grapes used for this wine were hand picked into plastic boxes, destemmed, gently pressed, and deposited into stainless steel tanks for fermentation at 28ºC (82ºF). The wine had a total maceration time of 26 days to heighten its complexity and obtain a pleasingly intense structure. This year’s weather conditions clearly left their mark on the character and elegance of the wine. Following malolactic fermentation, the final blend was aged for 16 months in French oak barrels, which confer pleasing aromas of oak to the wine. The wine was racked and lightly
filtered before bottling.
Winemaker´s Notes
The potential of our matchless terroir, our hillside plantings, and the high quality of our Cabernet Franc motivated us to create this new blend of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot in 2010. The enological composition of this vintage is 60% Cabernet Franc, 30% Petit Verdot, 6% Carmenere, and 4% Syrah.
