Apaltagua Grial 2008 Carmenere
Price: Around $75
Rating: 
Color: Deep ruby
Nose: Blackberries and red fruit with vanilla, leather, and eucalyptus notes
Taste: Dry and medium to dense in body. Subtle tannins that blend with near perfect acidity for a rich velvet fruit experience. Red cherries on the palate with hints of black olive.
Summary: This is my final tasting for 2011 but I have to say, it may be one of the best of the year. Definitely the best Carmenere I tasted in 2011. A well balanced, rich and complex wine that delivers exemplary Carmenere fruit flavor that persists on the palate. Good cellaring potential but great for drinking now.
Product of Chile’s Colchagua valley.
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Nevertheless Apaltagua is an excelennt wine of Colchagua Valley.
Happy New Year 2012 from the the heart of the valley where I have the privilege to live: Chiers for a great 2012 from High Maipo Valley at Southeast Santiago de Chile, dear friends of Chilean wines,
Luis Rafael Jofré
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