Winemaker Notes
Blend: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
This powerful red is intensely flavored around a core of cocoa bean-accented blackberry and cassis, with abundant acidity midpalate to carry the flavors onto the finish, which reveals graphite, five-spice and firm tannins. Drink now through 2033.
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Wine Enthusiast
Subtle grass, cherry, and blueberry aromas lead to a well-structured palate that features ripe tannins. Plum, cherry flavors, and a light note of cumin are backed by good acidity on this full-bodied wine.
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.