Aromas of blueberries, blackberries and fresh flowers. Very cool and pure. Medium-bodied with fine, linear and very integrated tannins that are compressed and silky-textured. New second wine of Almaviva. Needs time to open. Try after 2024.
Review Date: 4th August 2021
The first truly international release of the second wine is going to be the 2019 Epu, which has changed image and label, looking a little more like Almaviva, and is going to be sold through the Bordeaux négoce. 2019 was a very dry vintage, and the blend is 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Carmenere, 2% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc with slightly higher alcohol than 2018 and with lower acidity, matured in used barriques for one year. In terms of freshness, the wine is quite similar to the 2018 that I tasted next to it, obviously a little younger, quite intense and fruit-driven, spicy and herbal, with a creamy texture and fine-grained tannins. It's a second wine, but they also want to do something different and Epu is perhaps a little more classical, perhaps this is more Bordeaux and Almaviva is more Chilean. 70,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in December 2020 and January 2021.
Drinking Window: 2021 - 2028
Reviewer Name: Luis Gutiérrez
Review Date: 31st August 2021
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- Year 2019
- Colour Red
- Country Chile
- Region Central Valley
- Sub Region Maipo Valley
- Designation
- Pack Size 6x75cl
- ABV 15°
- Drinking Window 2021 - 2028
- Drinking Recommendation Drinking Now
- LWIN 135732320190600750
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94 James Suckling
Aromas of blueberries, blackberries and fresh flowers. Very cool and pure. Medium-bodied with fine, linear and very integrated tannins that are compressed and silky-textured. New second wine of Almaviva. Needs time to open. Try after 2024.
Review Date: 4th August 2021
93+ Wine AdvocateThe first truly international release of the second wine is going to be the 2019 Epu, which has changed image and label, looking a little more like Almaviva, and is going to be sold through the Bordeaux négoce. 2019 was a very dry vintage, and the blend is 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Carmenere, 2% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc with slightly higher alcohol than 2018 and with lower acidity, matured in used barriques for one year. In terms of freshness, the wine is quite similar to the 2018 that I tasted next to it, obviously a little younger, quite intense and fruit-driven, spicy and herbal, with a creamy texture and fine-grained tannins. It's a second wine, but they also want to do something different and Epu is perhaps a little more classical, perhaps this is more Bordeaux and Almaviva is more Chilean. 70,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in December 2020 and January 2021.
Drinking Window: 2021 - 2028
Reviewer Name: Luis Gutiérrez
Review Date: 31st August 2021
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Concho y Toro is Latin America's largest wine producer, and the 'benchmark' for Chilean wine. Encompassed in their repertoire are the world's highest scoring Carmenere's - Carmin de Peumo and Terrunyo as well as one of the world's most 'distinctive' Cabernet Sauvignon's - Don Melchor. Chile's first and original Icon wine, James Suckling named Don Melchor the "Classic Cabernet of Chile".
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