Winemaker Notes
This Cabernet Franc Limited Edition shows personality through aromas of red fruits and spice good balance, excellent mid-palate and long finish. This is a truly unique, spicy, elegant wine. Certified Sustainable.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 Cabernet Franc Limited Edition represents the third vintage of this varietal in the range, and in 2015 it was blended with 4% Petit Verdot. The Cabernet Franc grapes come from younger vineyards, just seven years old. As all the wines labeled Limited Edition, the grapes from the estate vineyards ferment in stainless steel (in this case, with indigenous yeasts) after a cold soak; malolactic is in barrique, and the élevage lasted 14 months and was in second and third use French oak barrels. It's very peppery and spicy with a strong herbal influence, balsamic and minty. The palate has the very fine-grained tannins and the textbook mid-palate the grape provides. A very good Cabernet Franc.
Cabernet Franc, a proud parent of Cabernet Sauvignon, is the subtler and more delicate of the Cabernets. Today Cabernet Franc produces outstanding single varietal wines across the wine-producing world. Somm Secret—One of California's best-kept secrets is the Happy Canyon appellation of Santa Barbara. Here Cabernet Franc shines as a single varietal wine or in blends, expressing sumptuous fruit, savory aromas and polished tannins.
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.