Anakena Ona White blend.

November 15, 2007 at 5:41 am · Filed under Rapel Valley, Chardonnay wine Chile, Riesling wine Chile, White blend, Viognier

From Anakena Vineyard:

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Casas del Bosque Chardonnay 2005, Casablanca Valley.

November 1, 2007 at 2:57 pm · Filed under Casablanca Valley, Chardonnay wine Chile

SurVino:
This wine is difficult to forget; although we drank it three weeks ago, its memory remains sufficiently fresh to inspire more than a few lines. In essence this is a French oak wine, in which the natural wood aromas seem to dominate over the toasted ones (there is neither candy nor graphite but rather wood resin). This is a very robust wine in the mouth, with balanced acidity; that is to say, somewhere between dry and fresh. Recommended.

Presenttation Casas del Bosque Vineyard:
Tasting Notes
Grapes : Chardonnay 100%., Casablanca Valley.
Vintage : The grapes were carefully hand harvested in April 2005
Average per Ha : 7 Ton.
Winemaking : This wine was fermented in first and second used French barrels, with selected yeasts. Then it was kept with their lees for about 9 months where they received a batonage weekly. No malolactic fermentation took place, to maintain their natural acidity.
Tasting notes : Intense gold color, with peach and apricot mixed with a hint of hazel hunt and lemony oak aromas. Full bodied palate, peach/lemon flavors, mid palate with a long mineral and creamy finish prolonged by an elegant vanilla.
Analisys : Alcohol: 13,7%, Total acidity: 5,15 g/L (C4H606), pH: 3,44

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Cono Sur Gewürztraminer, Bio-Bio Valley 2006.

October 30, 2007 at 10:34 pm · Filed under Bio-Bio Valley, Gewurztraminer

Expectations are raised when you come across a wine of a rare grape variety on the shelves, and even more when it comes from the Bío-Bío Valley. The variety Gewürztraminer which comes from Germany, should find excellent conditions in these southern lands. Gewürztraminer wines are aromatic, citric and somewhat sweet, although there is much discussion in Europe about the custom of adding sugar to the must; we will see if these wines keep the same characteristics over the next few years.

This Gewürztraminer wine from de Cono Sur Vineyard raises great expectations due to its lovely colour and floral aroma, but in the mouth it may frighten more than a few. It seems unlikely that it will be able to approach the position held by Chilean Chardonnay, which is reaching a high level of development at all levels of production. Recommended only by those of a curious disposition.

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Cono Sur vineyard Chardonnay, 2007.

October 29, 2007 at 10:35 pm · Filed under Chilean appellations, Chardonnay wine Chile

We continue to taste some of the white wines which fall within everyone’s price range. And that this may be seen unfavourably by some, forms part of the paradox of wine culture. Without doubt, in backward societies democracy hurts, produces discomfort, and is seen as a threat by some. If wine in remote times was used as a symbol and means for social unity in festivities, where different social classes and clans would mix, today it often seems to imply the opposite.

I don’t have the figures, but I would imagine tha, t the wines produced by Cono Sur vineyard sell well in the USA and the UK, since the bicycle is generally welcomed in this world under threat from climatic change. A winner of an image for these times; apart from this, there is very little information about the production processes on the label of these wines.

The Chardonnay 2007 wine from the Cono Sur vineyard is very easy to drink with a pleasing aroma and good on the palate.  It doesn’t have grand aspirations but it is a very solid wine and above all, a democratic one (one citizen = one wine = maybe cheapest).

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Cabernet Sauvignon “Root:1″ Colchagua Valley 2005

October 26, 2007 at 4:30 am · Filed under Colchagua Valley, Rapel Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon wine Chile, Shiraz wine Chile

The unique labeling attracts your attention and does a good job communicating the importance of good rootstock to making a good wine. The story goes that these are rare ungrafted vines growing in a rarified region. Unlike most of the world’s wine growing regions, here in Colchagua Valley Phylloxera has not destroyed the original vines or forced new vines to be grafted onto resistant root stock.

Seattle based Click Wine Group is partners with giant Agrosuper Viña Ventisquero on Root:1 Chilean Cabernet.

Winemaker Felipe Tosso reports the source of fruit is the Apalta and El Suspiro (”the whisper”) Vineyards in Colchagua Valley, a sub-region of Rapel Valley. The blend is 85% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Syrah, aged about 1 year in French oak barrels.

Outstanding value ($11). Closure: Real cork. Alcohol content: 14%.

Style: Fruit forward, complex, lush, dark fruit, some oak spice.

Tasting Notes: Appearance: Deep ruby translucent. Aromas: Cherry, loganberry, coffee, vanilla, cinnamon, and sage. Rich, well-structured and medium-bodied, the jammy dark fruit flavors merge with spicy cedary oak to create a big dry reverberating finish.

Comment: This unexpectedly fruity and new worldly Chilean Cab goes great with a medium rare steak.

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