Winemaker Notes
The elegant, complex aromas open with garrigue, notes of red fruits, cardamom, oolong tea, tobacco and black pepper. It is well structured, fresh, and nicely balanced on the palate, with a particular graphite, mineral note. The tannins are soft, and the wine ends with a long, lingering finish. Made with 100% Petit Verdot. Certified Sustainable.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The grapes for the 2015 Chaski Petit Verdot were harvested two weeks before the average date for the grape in this warm and dry vintage, and it still achieved 14.5% alcohol. It comes from a specific plot that has lots of stones. It matured for 16 months in 225-liter French oak barrels, 60% of them new. The challenge here was to maintain the freshness, which this Petit Verdot managed quite nicely, avoiding the roasted and charred character it can also have. The fruit is ripe without excess, and the tannins are grainy, in need of some powerful food. Very good for the conditions of the year and the natural tendency of the grape.
Range: 91-92
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Decanter
Smoky and heady with layered aromatics of inky dark fruit and peppery blueberry, spiced oak and a vibrant acidity lace the luscious palate.
One of the original Bordeaux varieties, Petit Verdot has a bold structure, color and aromas, which allow it to make a significant difference in Bordeaux Blends—even in modest amounts. While it isn’t planted in Bordeaux in great quantities anymore, its virtues are increasingly identified elsewhere. Somm Secret—Producing phenomenal single-varietal wines in hot and dry locations in the New World, Petit Verdot also finds a happy home in parts of Spain as well as in in Portugal’s Alentejo where it gracefully blends with the regions' indigenous varieties.
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.