2019 rothschild & concha y toro, almaviva, maipo valley
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Why We're Buying
Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Concha y Toro joined efforts to produce this extraordinary Bordeaux-style red blend using the best vineyards of the Maipo Valley. Debuted in 1996, Viña Almaviva has reshaped the definition of investment-worthy wine. In 2020, wine critic James Suckling hailed it as the “Wine of the Decade,” beating out more than 100,000 other entries for the title.
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James Suckling
The aromas of iodine and blackcurrants with roses and lavender make the wine extremely perfumed. It’s full-bodied with a tight, fine-tannined palate that shows linear flow through the center palate. It’s vertical and integrated, adding depth and serious quality to the wine.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Almaviva is a blend of 68 Cabernet Sauvignon, 23 Carmenère (from Peumo), 5 Cabernet Franc, 3 Petit Verdot and 1 Merlot, higher in Carmenere and reflecting a warmer and drier vintage when then bottled wine reached 15 alcohol. It fermented with destemmed grapes in stainless steel and matured in French oak barrels, 75 of them new, for 18 months. Here, the Carmenere adds herbal freshness and changes the aromatic profile when compared with the 2019 Epu. 2019 was a good year for Carmenere, which suffers in extremely warm years like 2017, but in moderately warm years like 2019, the variety displays that herbal character and has good density. It's full-bodied and round, with saturated tannins, tasty, spicy and long, with a dry, serious finish. It's balsamic, with notes of camphor and a silky and velvety texture. 200,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2021.