Winemaker Notes
Deep ruby red color. Raspberry and ripe cherry-scented nose with hints of saffron, paprika, nutmeg, black pepper, chocolate, and tobacco. A broad-shouldered wine of gorgeous personality, large volume, and elegant and balanced tannin.
Blend: 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Carmenère, 5% Syrah
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Precision and focus to this young red with blueberry, hints of dark chocolate and cigar box. Full body, silky tannins and a flavorful finish. Linear, polished and refined. Best Dix ever? Drink in 2019.
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Wine Enthusiast
Pointy aromas of cherry and cassis are a bit jumpy and volatile but settle with airing. This Cabernet Sauvignon-led blend is powerfully built, with notable acidity. Blackberry, cocoa and spice flavors do a steady fade on the finish. Drink through 2025.
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Wine Spectator
Mouthfilling flavors of dark plum, currant and dried raspberry are firm and well-structured. Notes of slate midpalate linger into a savory finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenère and Syrah. Drink now through 2020. 10,000 cases made, 500 cases imported.
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.
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.