TerraNoble CA2 Costa Carmenere 2020
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This is a very elegant and fruity Carménère that offers a combination of red and black fruits, with no herbal notes but a great freshness, which makes it a wine with lots of aromas and full of life. It feels vibrant on the palate, with a good concentration, balance and great volume. Its tannins are big and round, and it offers a persistent ending with great structure.
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The 2020 Carménère CA2 Costa from Lolol, Colchagua Costa, was aged for 16 months in 42% new 300-liter French barrels with 58% in untoasted foudres. A vivid purple hue. The nose presents jalapeño and ash notes over a layer of plum and blackberry with hints of herbs. Indulgent and intense on the palate with a broad flow and finely grained tannins. The pleasant, juicy finish features gum-tickling, overripe dark fruit.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The spicy, peppery and deeply varietal 2020 Carmenere Ca2 Costa ois ripe without excess at 14.3% alcohol and keeps good freshness. It is light to medium-bodied, with abundant grainy tannins and a finish of black peppercorns. It matured in a combination of untoasted foudre and barriques and has integrated oak.
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Wine Spectator
An elegant expression, with dusty, dried rose petal and petrichor aromas joining floral raspberry and red currant flavors, which benefit from fresh acidity and linger around fine tannins and notes of chocolate. Drink now.
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This outstanding winery was founded in 1993, and has produced high quality wines that have been recognized and awarded. The owners, driven by their passion for viniculture, are dedicated to producing top wines by combining the excellent premises of a magnificent nature with the best in tradition and modernism.
The winery is located in the Maule Valley and the vineyards are in the Maule, Colchagua and Casablanca valleys. Each property was specially selected to extract the best attributes of each grape variety. The philosophy of Viñedos Terranoble is to produce elegant, noble and pleasant drinking wines, with fruit-bearing flavors and aromas that maintain the characteristics of each variety. The wines are young, attractively priced, and perfect for every day drinking. The line is all stainless steel production, resulting in clean, varietally driven profiles. The and wines see time in oak barrels, producing fully-bodied wines with a dynamic structure that offers the aromas and flavors of both the fruit and the wood.
Dark, full-bodied and herbaceous with a spicy kick, Carménère found great success with its move to Chile in the mid-19th century. However, the variety went a bit undercover until 1994 when many plantings previously thought to be Merlot, were profiled as Carménère. Somm Secret— Carménère is both a progeny and a great-grandchild of the similarly flavored Cabernet Franc.
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.