Winemaker Notes
Antiguas Reservas Cabernet Sauvignon has aromas of black currant, strawberry, cherry, and raspberry. Notes of cassis mix with spice, black pepper, vanilla, and mild mint. The palate delivers medium acidity, soft tannins, and a long finish.
Enjoy Antiguas Reservas Cabernet Sauvignon with stew, strong cheeses, grilled steak, or roasted mushrooms.
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Wine & Spirits
This wine has a rooty vegetal spice to its acidity, like parsnips and kohlrabi. It’s austere, dry and multidimensional. The light red fruit comes up with air, meeting the rooty, earthy notes, lasting with a contrapuntal complexity. The texture is silken, light enough for grilled game fish—or cellar it to let the potentially graceful structure develop.
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.
The Maipo Valley is Chile’s most famous wine region. Set in the country’s Central Valley, it is warm and quite dry, often necessitating the use of irrigation. Alluvial soils predominate but are supplemented with loam and clay.
The climate in Maipo is best-suited for ripe, full-bodied reds like Cabernet Sauvignon (the region’s most widely planted grape), Merlot, Syrah and Carmenère, a Bordeaux variety that has found a successful home in Chile.
White wines are also produced with great prosperity, especially near the cooler coast, include Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.