Chilean Wine Icons Wine Trio with Tasting Video

Watch a tasting as we celebrate icons of Chilean wine! With a stunning landscape and near perfect climatic conditions, Chile produces incredible wines of quality and diversity. We taste three award winning wines (including a 100-point wine!) highlighting the most exciting red grapes in Chile right now – Cabernet Sauvignon and Carmenere. Learn how this country continues to craft delicious wines while playing a leading role in sustainable viticulture. Wine.com host Gwendolyn Osborn leads this special tasting as we taste the Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon with CEO and Winemaker Enrique Tirado, the Montes Purple Angel Apalta Vineyard Carmenere with Chief Winemaker Aurelio Montes Jr., and the Los Vascos Le Dix with Chairwoman Saskia de Rothschild.

Watch the tasting here.

Guests include:

• Enrique Tirado, CEO and Winemaker, Don Melchor
• Aurelio Montes Jr., Chief Winemaker, Montes
• Saskia de Rothschild, Chairwoman, Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite)
• Hosted by: Gwendolyn Osborn, Wine Educator, Wine.com

Tasting Set Includes:

• Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
  The wine displays a remarkable presence of red fruits and a clear expression of the Puente Alto Cabernet Sauvignon, with fine, delicate tannins that give the wine great elegance and density, different layers of aromas and flavors, very smooth, elegant tannins, and a long, persistent finish. The wine manages to produce that unique sensation you only get from great wines and great harvests.
  Rated 100 Points: James Suckling
  Rated 98 Points: Tim Atkin
  Rated 96 Points: Wine & Spirits
  Rated 96 Points: Vinous
  Rated 95 Points: Wine Spectator
• Montes Purple Angel Apalta Vineyard Carmenere 2018
  Impressive deep purplish-red in color. The aromas are complex, with pronounced blackberry and ripe blueberry fruit. There is also dried plum, cooked cherry and candied fruit. The 18 months of aging in French oak gives a complex nose of toasted aromas, nuts, sweet spice, and touches of dairy and vanilla. On the palate, the flavors follow the aromas, with sensations of dark fruit and toast leading to a long finish that is finely balanced with good body and structure.
  Rated 93 Points: Vinous / Antonio Galloni
• Los Vascos Le Dix 2016
  Ripe plum and cherry-scented nose that also features notes of licorice, saffron, cinnamon, and nutmeg that enhance the complexity of aromas. Notes of graphite, clove, dark chocolate, and cedar take the experience to a whole new level; A smooth and supple wine with sweet and friendly tannins.
  Rated 95 Points: Tim Atkin
  Rated 95 Points: Decanter
  Rated 93 Points: James Suckling
  Rated 93 Points: Wine Enthusiast
  Rated 92 Points: Wilfred Wong of Wine.com

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