Winemaker Notes
CA2 offers refreshing elegance, soft textures, and intense dark fruit and spice flavors. This vibrant wine shows the perfect expression of Carmenere’s varietal character from Chile’s Costa zone.
CA2 is made with grapes from TerraNoble’s vineyard in Marchigue, Colchagua Valley. The area’s temperate Mediterranean climate benefits from the coast’s constant, refreshing breezes.
Serve CA2 with empanadas, Spaghetti alla Puttanesca, or dark chocolate.
Professional Ratings
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Vinous
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.
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.