Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon 1995

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Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon 1995 Front Label
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Varietal

Producer

Vintage
1995

Size
750ML

Features
Collectible

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Winemaker Notes

Deep garnet color, great concentration and spicy, minty flavors.

Professional Ratings

  • 92
    At age 27 the 1995 Don Melchor was showing surprisingly well. The blend that year was 97% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Merlot, with 13.3% alcohol. The temperatures during the growing season were close to the average, and the rain was slightly lower. The minty and balsamic character has gown compared with the 1988 I tasted side by side with this. It was an average year in temperature but quite dry; it was a year of powerful wines, meaty and powerful, with that menthol, almost eucalyptus, note. The palate is spicy and with full body, with sweeter fruit, wider, with concentration and depth. It was bottled in October 1996 after some 12 months in French oak barrels, 65% of them new and 35% second use.

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Don Melchor, named after Concha Y Toro’s founder, is among Chile’s most-acclaimed wines and a Cabernet that belongs in every conversation about world-class interpretations of this singular varietal. Winemaker Enrique Tirado says of his vision for the wine, “Don Melchor’s style, complexity, and elegance are the extension of the perfect balance between the rocky soils in Puente Alto, the cold winds that slide down from the Andes Mountains, the generous climate of the Maipo Valley, the number of years the vines have taken to yield their best grapes, and the meticulous and caring work of the human hand.”

The signature wine from the exquisitely tended Puente Alto vineyard, Don Melchor celebrates its 30th vintage with the 2016 release. Set at the foot of the Andes Mountains on the northern banks of the Maipo River in the Upper Maipo Valley, 650 meters above sea level, the vineyard dates back to the mid-19th century, when the first pre-phylloxera French varieties were brought to Chile. Today, the vineyard consists of 127 hectares, divided into seven parcels, 90% of which are Cabernet Sauvignon, 7.1% are Cabernet Franc, 1.9% are Merlot, and 1% are Petit Verdot. Each parcel has been subdivided in order for very specific, detailed work that responds to the particular needs of each plant, row by row, to achieve the perfect balance with the weather characteristics of each year. Average vine age is over 30 years.

Every year, Winemaker Enrique Tirado travels to the small town of Lamarque, Bordeaux, France, to meet with renowned Bordeaux consultant Eric Boissenot, to taste approximately 150 lots from the vineyard and determine which lots, and in which proportions, will go into the new vintage of Don Melchor. Once the final blend has been defined, the new vintage of Don Melchor is transferred to French oak barrels from the Allier, Tronçois, and Nevers forests. Nearly two-thirds of the barrels are new, and the remaining third have had one prior use. After 14–15 months, the wine is bottled and aged for another year to develop the complexity and elegance that Don Melchor is known for.

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