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Inspiring wine: wonderfully intense, wonderfully scented and ripe, but wonderfully cool in style. You simply can't get flavours as lovely as this in hot conditions. Chile is rapidly developing new vineyard areas and has an expanding and impressive roll-call of grape varieties at which she excels. Syrah is one of them. This is like a top northern Rhone Syrah from a very good year. It smells of fresh blackberries and summer evening bonfire smoke and then it billows out with a sumptuous texture - blackberries and loganberries, syrupy soft, but roughened by wood smoke and the lightest smack of tannin.
Oz ClarkeOz's Top 250 Best Wines 2010 Buying Guide
From Elqui Valley, Chile's new northern El Dorado which funnels cool air in from the Pacific, this is a cool climate, northern Rhône-like style, with smoky, tarry paprika–like aromas and a little more fruit opulence and rich blackberry fruit flavours than Crozes Hermitage, retaining nicely balanced supple tannins, bright freshness and spicy oak. 90/100
thewinegang.com, February 2009
Decanter World Wine Awards 2010 - Trophy
IWC Awards 2010 - Trophy
Winemaking
Grapes comes from 3 different vineyards with dominance of Titon area ( cool climate), with very low production per vine. Winemaking is the traditional Syrah; cold maceration, fermentation at 22-23ºC full malolactic fermentation and aging in barrels (60% of the volumes for 6/8 months).
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