2017 | Almaviva | Puente Alto

Taut and savory, with loads of freshly crushed green herbal accents to the mineral-infused red currant and plum flavors. Cedary midpalate, featuring a burnished finish filled with spicy notes.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: I retasted the 2016 and 2017 next to the current 2018 to get some comparisons. Tasting the three years side by side, the 2017 Almaviva is clearly the one with more herbal notes and lots of concentration. It was a warm year with low yields and high concentration, but funnily enough, there are more herbaceous notes in the wine. This is a year of power and concentration, but the tannins are nicely coated by juicy fruit.

• James Suckling: The aromas of blackberry leaves and iodine are wild and exotic here with mussel shells and earth underneath. Full-bodied, tight and chewy with powerful tannins that show muscle. It’s structured and powerful. Dense and very, very deep. Don’t touch this until 2025.

Producer Information

Almaviva, a high-profile wine brand based in the Maipo Valley, Chile, is a joint venture between Baron Philippe de Rothschild of Bordeaux and Chilean wine producer Concha y Toro. The eponymous wine is a Bordeaux-style blend, combining Cabernet Sauvignon with Carmenère and other Bordeaux varieties. This is one of Chile's most prestigious wines. Its first vintage was in 1996, and it has since garnered many high ratings among critics. More recently its credentials as a fine wine have been further enhanced as its ability to mature for two decades or more has been proven. The wine is benchmarked by its producers against the great Cabernet-based wines of the Médoc and Napa Valley. In this respect the presence of Carmenère provides a differentiating factor. Almaviva is unusual among Chilean wines in following the chateau concept of a winery surrounded a contiguous vineyard (in practice many Bordeaux properties consist of more than one plot). In the tradition of top Bordeaux estates, Almaviva also makes a second wine, called EPU ("Two" in the Mapuche language).

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