Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine & Spirits
The cool 2011 harvest was ideal for creating cabernets of great elegance. Terrunyo, from 20-year-old vines on a terrace over the south bank of the Maipo River, is among the best of the vintage. The aroma is spicy and intense, with sweet scents of cinnamon and cumin rising off a foundation of fine tannins. The flavors are reminiscent of cassis and blackberries, outlined by a fine, persistent acidity that accompanies the wine into the finish, leaving a smooth and fresh impression.
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Wine Enthusiast
Deep, alluring aromas of blackberry and cassis are youthful and thus a bit animal and wild. In the mouth, this young CS is chunky, rubbery and dense. Flavors of blackberry, cassis and black coffee are on the dark side, while the finish offers a meaty, substantive feel, tons of lasting fruit flavor, and a touch of heat and burn that will fade away with more time in bottle. Best from 2016–2022. Cellar Selection.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2011 Terrunyo Cabernet Sauvignon is a tad better than the 2010. The wine aged for 14-16 months in barrels and has a perfumed nose mixing the classical notes of tobacco and blackberries with fresher aromas of raspberries leading to a soft, feminine profile, very attractive and lovely, with tannins that show great work in the winery. This is a great Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Wine Spectator
Luscious and juicy, this features a backbone of fresh acidity to the dark chocolate, currant and dried blackberry flavors. Black olive and bittersweet chocolate accents fill in midpalate, showing creamy notes on the finish.
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.
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.