Winemaker Notes
The nose of the Fundo la Union is ripe and bold with yellow apple, peach, and pear notes. The palate shows a similar mineral drive, with lots of cool granite stoniness and spice notes balanced with notes of fennel-like garrigue and yellow apple and citrus.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The cork of the 2020 Fundo La Unión Semillon was super dry, hard and difficult to extract, and the wine showed a very dark golden color but didn't have any notes of oxidation. On the contrary, it was shy and austere, with a dry and mineral palate. It was produced with grapes from ancient vines in Coelemu (Itata), 14 kilometers form the sea. It fermented with the skins and indigenous yeast in stainless steel vats and matured in neutral oak barrels for one year. It's medium-bodied with good ripeness, 13% alcohol and an austere mouthfeel, soil-driven. I later tasted another bottle with Roberto Henríquez in one of his vineyards.
Sémillon has the power to create wines with considerable structure, depth and length that will improve for several decades. It is the perfect partner to the vivdly aromatic Sauvignon Blanc. Sémillon especially shines in the Bordeaux region of Sauternes, which produces some of the world’s greatest sweet wines. Somm Secret—Sémillon was so common in South Africa in the 1820s, covering 93% of the country’s vineyard area, it was simply referred to as Wyndruif, or “wine grape.”
A cool, rather wet region of southern Chile, Bio Bio is experiencing an increase in the development of quality wine production.