• WILLIAM FÈVRE "Espino Gran Cuvée" 2022 - Carménère - Maipo Valley - Chile
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WILLIAM FÈVRE "Espino Gran Cuvée" 2022 - Carménère - Maipo Valley - Chile

Vintage: 2022

CL52

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Living up to its expectation of a fine aging wine, this Espino Gran Cuve?e Carmene?re from the 2019 vintage is even more surprising! It possesses an intense purple color and on the nose it has a great complexity of red pepper (characteristic of this grapes, particularly enhance this vintage), wild black berries with aromas of earth, smokey wood and violets. On the palate, the attack subtle and generous, the tannins are velvety and persistent. The qualities of this well structured Carmene?re are enhanced with several years of aging in the bottle.
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Description

Living up to its expectation of a fine aging wine, this Espino Gran Cuve?e Carmene?re from the 2019 vintage is even more surprising! It possesses an intense purple color and on the nose it has a great complexity of red pepper (characteristic of this grapes, particularly enhance this vintage), wild black berries with aromas of earth, smokey wood and violets. On the palate, the attack subtle and generous, the tannins are velvety and persistent. The qualities of this well structured Carmene?re are enhanced with several years of aging in the bottle.

How to pair it

Roasted duck breast with jerusalem artichoke purée
Product Type
Red Wine
Region

Maipo

Grape Varietal

Carmenère – Syrah

Vintage

2022

Country

Chile

Age of Vines

15 years

Producers

Weingut Selbach-Oster

Alcohol Percentage

14.30%

Fermentation and Maceration

The wine goes through an extended maceration period where color and flavor are extracted from the skins. following fermentation the wine is then aged in slavonian oak casks for a minimum period of 2 years that impart little oak flavor and generally produce a more round and austere wine.

Mouth Attribute

Velvety tannins, well-structured, and persistent

Nose Attribute

Red pepper, blackberry, earth, and violets

Aging

Aged twelve months in French oak barrels from various forests and makers, allowing for greater complexity.

Production

7000 kgs / ha

Altitude of Vineyard

800 m

Density

3.300 vines/hectar

Production Style

Traditional with environmentally-friendly farming methods

Total Production

8265

SKU
CL52

Chile is the only country that grows engrafted Carmenère vines. This vine stock originated from Bordeaux, from where it has almost completely disappeared, was rediscovered in Chile a few years ago. Our Carmenère vineyards are located in San Luis de Pirque, in the Maipo Valley.

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