Perez Cruz Chaski Petit Verdot 2015

  • 92 Robert
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  • 91 Decanter
3.8 Very Good (30)
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Product Details


Varietal

Region

Producer

Vintage
2015

Size
750ML

ABV
14.5%

Features
Green Wine

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Somm Note

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

  • 92

    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

  • 91

    Smoky and heady with layered aromatics of inky dark fruit and peppery blueberry, spiced oak and a vibrant acidity lace the luscious palate.

Other Vintages

2019
  • 91 Vinous
2014
  • 92 Robert
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2012
  • 91 Robert
    Parker
2011
  • 92 Robert
    Parker
  • 90 James
    Suckling
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Perez Cruz, South America
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The Pérez Cruz family’s primary objective is to express their estate’s personality through wines with character and identity. The wines are 100% single-estate origin, which affords the winery total control of the outstanding fruit which arrives at full maturity and with uniform ripeness. French-trained winemaker German Lyon, assisted by the occasional consult from Álvaro Espinoza, one of the leading biodynamic experts in the country, takes a gentle and diligent approach to handling the fruit, which flows through the multi-level gravity-fed winery without pumps.

Here in the rolling foothills of the Andes Mountains, soils are deep, stony, and poor in nutrients. The Mediterranean-like climate offers dry and very sunny summers with vast swings between daytime and nighttime temperatures—the ideal combination for producing high-quality wines with ripe fruit and driving acidity. Rocky soils and a temperate microclimate create exceptional growing conditions. The cooling influence of the Andes mountain air mingles with mild Pacific Ocean breezes to create the conditions for slow ripening and long hang times, which lead to fresh, vibrant fruit flavors married to local aromatic herbs, mouthwatering natural acidity and polished tannins.

The winery was built of native types of wood with two barrel-shaped central naves, exterior arches that evoke the passing of wind through trees, and stone foundations that recall the structures the Incas left behind in the area. Its sustainable design incorporates a gravity-flow process and has a three-million-liter capacity. By taking advantage of the conditions below ground, temperature and humidity are controlled naturally in the barrel cellar, which has a capacity for 5,000 barrels.

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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.

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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.

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