Winemaker Notes
The Frida Kahlo is a deep and intense ruby-red in color. The nose presents aromas of black currants, blackberries, and licorice with smooth, elegant cedar notes. The palate is very rich and generous yet fresh and vibrant at the same time. The wine has abundant fruit and firm tannins that lend structure and depth.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Stewed blackberry, dried blackcurrant, porcini, cola and charred bark on the nose. It’s medium-to full-bodied with firm, sleek tannins and fresh acidity. Chewy, intense and savory with a flavorful finish. Drink now.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Frida Kahlo Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon was produced with grapes from Maipo and is soft and balanced, spicy and varietal, fresh but with good ripeness. It has an approachable and easy-to-understand profile, nicely crafted.
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Vinous
The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Frida Kahlo Single Vineyard from Maipo was aged for 14 months in French barrels. Garnet red in color. The fragrant, fruity nose offers herbs, black currant and plum jam with secondary aromas from the aging process. Compact in the mouth, the constrained but juicy tannins are sculpted by the wood. A well-made wine.
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.