Winemaker Notes
Delicate pink color. On the nose, floral notes with hints of rose petal and raspberry. It is a dry wine with good acidity and refreshing strawberry palate.
Blend: 75% Grenache, 25% Mourvèdre
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Consumers as well as buyers for restaurants and retail shops would do well to pay sharper attention to Southern Hemisphere rosés as the category continues its year-round hot streak. This particular bottling is a blend of 75% Grenache and 25% Mourvèdre grown in a mature 29-year-old vineyard. Simple but pure, fresh, and well balanced, it delivers delicious flavors of strawberries and pie cherries along with bright acidity.
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Tasting Panel
Consumers as well as buyers for restaurants and retail shops would do well to pay sharper attention to Southern Hemisphere rosés as the category continues its year-round hot streak. This is blended from 75% Grenache and 25% Mourvèdre grown in a mature, 29-year-old vineyard. Simple but very pure, fresh, and well-balanced, it delivers delicious flavors recalling strawberries and pie cherries with bright acidity.
Whether it’s playful and fun or savory and serious, most rosé today is not your grandmother’s White Zinfandel, though that category remains strong. Pink wine has recently become quite trendy, and this time around it’s commonly quite dry. Since the pigment in red wines comes from keeping fermenting juice in contact with the grape skins for an extended period, it follows that a pink wine can be made using just a brief period of skin contact—usually just a couple of days. The resulting color depends on grape variety and winemaking style, ranging from pale salmon to deep magenta.
Well-regarded for intense and exceptionally high quality red wines, the Colchagua Valley is situated in the southern part of Chile’s Rapel Valley, with many of the best vineyards lying in the foothills of the Coastal Range.
Heavy French investment and cutting-edge technology in both the vineyard and the winery has been a boon to the local viticultural industry, which already laid claim to ancient vines and a textbook Mediterranean climate.
The warm, dry growing season in the Colchagua Valley favors robust reds made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenère, Malbec and Syrah—in fact, some of Chile’s very best are made here. A small amount of good white wine is produced from Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.