Clos Apalta 2008
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Tasting Notes
COLOR
Deep purple inky red color.
NOSE
Net and focused, with a very special purity of fresh black and red fruit and elegant herbs aromas.
PALATE
Elegant balance with silky and juicy tannins. More fruit flavors and a very long finish.
SERVICE AND FOOD PAIRING
Open and leave to breathe for a couple of hours or carefully decant for minimum 1 hour and enjoy at room temperature; 16 to 18ºC (60 to 65°F). Ideal companion for game, lamb, and entrecote fillet. Also good with rich cocoa chocolate deserts.
Vintage Report
APPELLATION
Colchagua Valley, Chile.
BLEND
73% Carmenère; 17% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Merlot.
HARVEST
Organic and Biodynamic vines management under process of certification by Ceres (Germany). Carmenère and Cabernet Sauvignon Pre-filoxera old vines planted in 1920 not grafted. Morning sun leaf removal and green harvest to fine tune yields. Harvested from the 26th of March until the 11th of May 2008.
GROWING CONDITIONS
We will remember 2008 as a year with a very cold and dry winter. The spring was drier and flowering conditions were good. The summer was hotter and drier with higher temperatures than normal. These conditions lead to grapes deeply colored and richly flavoured. During the harvest, conditions were very good and we completed harvest before the end of April and the first significant rain.
VINIFICATION
100% hand de-stemmed in our Clos Apalta Winery. 100% wild yeast in French oak small tanks, with skin contact up to 5 weeks. 100% of the blend was aged in 225 lts new French oak barrels for 22 months. Not fined, cold stabilized or filtered. Bottled in April 2010, 4771 cases of 12 bottles.
Technical sheet
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