De Martino La Aguada 2010 Cellar Collection Old Vine Carignan 2010

De Martino Limavida 2010 Cellar Collection Old Vine Carignan

Region: Maule, Central Valley, Chile

Vintage: 2010

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: 85% Carignan 15% Malbec, Cinsault, Cabernet Sauvignon y Carmenere

ABV: 14%

Highly aromatic and complex with notes of sweet crushed blackberry, truffle, earth and smoke.

Cellar Collection are wines for aging that we personally select every year from our family cellar, because we consider that they are ready to be enjoyed in their fullness. La Aguada 2010 has a broad, mature and deep palate; the rusticity and acidity of Carignan become elegant and fresh. Only 4,000 bottles released.

De Martino are a family estate of Italian heritage and are heralded as being somewhat the pioneers of Chilean wine production. Whilst they have a multitude of accolades, they are renownded for being the first to identify, bottle and export a varietal Carmenere from Chile and also for changing the Chilean wine scene in 2011 when their winemaker, the revered Marcel Retamal, decided that wines should be made completely differently to avoid the over extracted, high alcohol, oaky examples available on the market. To this end, he stated that grapes would be picked earlier, all oenological products such as commercial yeasts, enzymes, tannins would be stopped in favour of spontaneous ferment and indigenous yeasts and finally that zero new oak would be used as to not mask the great fruit they could produce. Needless to say that others soon followed suit! Add to this the fact that they have been voted “winery of the year” on three separate occasions, they were Chile’s first Carbon Neutral Winery, their wines are highly awarded by all critics and journalists (incl. getting top spot in Robert Parkers Chile review) and they continue to push boundaries by elaborating wines with different varietals and different terroirs.

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