Achaval-Ferrer Quimera 2016
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Winemaker Notes
Quimera is architecture and design; it is a unique warm-blend that was conceived at the vineyard. Every year Santiago and Roberto look for the meaning within the earth in the search for the impossible wine, making it unique year after year.
Thus resulting in a wine with deep shades, aromas that range from stony and earthy, of dark fruits to delicate accents of rosemary, open-mouthed, almost feminine and deliciously sour.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This offers a bold array of richly ripe dark plums and blackberries with assertive, spicy oak influence across bright red berries and a sweeping build of tannins that hold deeply embedded and concentrated dark-plum flavors.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2016 Achaval Ferrer Quimera is a complex and delicious blend of Bordeaux grape varieties. TASTING NOTES: This wine shows ample aromas and flavors of black fruit, licorice, dust, and earth. Serve it with is slow-cooked, savory pot roast. (Tasted: November 15, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Spectator
Lithe, with engaging minerality to the roasted plum, dark currant and black olive flavors. Sanguine notes show midpalate, offering a long, slate- and white pepper–filled finish. Malbec, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon.
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