Winemaker Notes
Intense red color. Highly expressive, with notes of blueberry, blackcurrant, graphite, and chocolate. Elegant herbal tones. It is an elegant and potent wine, with great density and character, vibrant and nervy enough to highlight the palate.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Rich but still fresh for a 2020 cabernet. Spicy blackberries with some dark olives and some chocolate. Dense and generous with firm and nicely chewy tannins. Nicely opulent.
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Wine Spectator
A powerful, savory rendition, with loam and graphite notes joining floral blackberry and toasted sesame flavors, swirling around a rich, concentrated and mouthcoating palate of cassis and plum. Reveals a note of chocolate cordial that rounds out the finish around firm tannins.
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Vinous
The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon Terrunyo hails from Pirque in Maipo Alto and was aged for 17 months in French oak barrels, 51% of them new. Dark garnet-red in color. The ripe nose delivers dark fruit notes such as blackberry and blueberry over a layer of mint. Indulgent and juicy on the palate. The rounded, polished tannins and mild acidity create an expansive feel. The finish is redolent with mild, fruity flavor.
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.