Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
Opulence this is with an array of notes; black fruit, cassis and a lovely herbal complexity. What’s special is the freshness, beautifully balanced with its acidity and concentration of fruit. A big wine with elegance.
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Wine & Spirits
A cool growing season in Aconcagua, north of Santiago, allowed Francisco Baettig to capture cabernet’s floral red-currant notes in this top selection from Errazuriz’s vineyards. The blend includes malbec, petit verdot, carmenère and cabernet franc, and while oak pervades the flavors with black-walnut richness and sweet coffee notes, it has plenty of brambly freshness. The tannins hold notes of cedar and iodine, the wine needing several years of age to integrate and evolve.
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Wine Spectator
Lithe and refined, with raspberry, cherry and pomegranate flavors, supported by a wave of fresh acidity. The juicy finish lingers, revealing hints of smoke and dried mint. Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Petit Verdot, Carmenère and Cabernet Franc. Drink now through 2022.
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 Aconcagua River runs east from the charming costal town of Valparaiso and bisects the land creating the valley after which it was named. While alluvial soils predominate the Aconcagua Valey along its river throughout, its east-west flow creates drastically different conditions on each of its ends. Its western, seaside vineyards, with clay and stony soils upon gently rolling hills, produce cool-climate varieties such as Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Its inner region is one of Chile’s hottest and produces some of its best red wines. Panquehue in the inner Aconcagua is the site of Chile’s first Syrah vines, planted in 1993.