Details

  • Type: Red
  • Country: Chile
  • Region: Colchagua Valley
  • Vintage: 2017
  • Producer: Veramonte(MC)
  • Primary grape: Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Secondary grape: Merlot
  • Tertiary grape: Carmenère
  • Bottle size: 75cl
  • Pack size: 75 cl x 6
  • Code: 22656

About the Wine

Merlot

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Merlot produces medium bodied, fleshy, juicy wines with round tannins. Often seen as a single varietal, or in a blend with Cabernet Sauvignon to take the hard edges off. Its grown all over the world and commercially one of the most important red grapes in the on-trade.

Flavours:

  • Blueberry Blueberry
  • Cherry Cherry
  • Chocolate Chocolate
  • Plum Plum
  • Vanilla Vanilla

Cabernet Sauvignon

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A full bodied and powerful grape variety with a lot of tannin. It ages very well and like Merlot is bottled as a single varietal or used to give blended wines ‘backbone’ structure and longevity. Classic flavour characteristics include blackcurrant, black cherry, green pepper, chocolate and cedar wood.

Flavours:

  • Black Cherry Black Cherry
  • Black Currant Black Currant
  • Cedar Cedar
  • Chocolate Chocolate
  • Green Peppercorn Green Peppercorn

The Country

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Chile

A viticultural paradise, where vines were introduced by the Spanish in the sixteenth century. A long, narrow country stretching 800 miles from the deserts of the north to the glacial south and it's these valleys and coasts that give the wine its variety.

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