A typical cabernet from Chile this week - intense and deep ruby-red colour with aromas of ripe fruits and vanilla due to ageing in American oak casks.
This is a full flavoured, elegant, reserve wine with blackcurrant and plum flavours - an easy-drinking wine with a lingering after-taste. The 14% alcohol is a little high but it doesn't detract from the taste. It will be fine on its own or with most red meats.
The grapes for this wine were grown in the Colchagua Valley where prime conditions for high volume wine production have made this area the leader in number of vineyards.
The quality of wine here has increased in the last decade due to reduction in production and planting on the hillsides rather than the valleys. Cabernet sauvignon is the most planted grape variety covering some 10,400 hectares.
This bottle maintains Chile's reputation for consistently good red wines at a reasonable price. "Best supermarket wines" gave this 8/10 when it was £5.99. Majestic now sell it for £4.79 if you include two in a case.
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