Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A very pretty cabernet with light black currant and fresh flower leaf aromas and flavors. Medium body, fine tannins and a crisp finish. Drink now.
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Wine & Spirits
With its menthol aromas, a silky smooth texdture, rich, ripe flavors and a slightly herbal finish, this is a fine Chilean cabernet and a perfect match for roast leg of lamb. Best Buy.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The 2014 Errazuriz Max Cabernet Sauvignon is an excellently drinking red wine. With ripe fruit and sweet oak in the aroma and a smooth and textured palate, this wine is ready for the dinner table now. (Tasted: August 11, 2016, San Francisco, CA)
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.