$69.99
WINE SPECTATOR 93 POINTS - "A dark, ambitious red, with ample toast and mocha to the macerated plum skin, dark cherry and grilled fig fruit, pumping Read More...
out layers of humus, iron and olive paste before the fruit returns for an encore on the finish. Carmenère and Petit Verdot. Drink now through 2020."
$12.98
The key to growing top quality Carménère is to let it hang a month or more past the harvest date of the Cabernet Sauvignon. Picture harvesting grapes in Napa at Thanksgiving and you Read More...
can understand the kind of patience Carménère demands. The payoff is in the nose. There are no hard vegetal notes on the Ventisquero. Instead, aromas of cassis, blueberries, violets, sweet spices and sage add pretty notes to a firm, serious red that will please Cabernet and Bordeaux purists.
Viña Ventisquero was new to us when we tasted the wines a few weeks ago and they are just getting their start in the US Market, but WOW, what a lineup—pure, multi-layered wines at unbeatable values. Ventisquero started by buying bare earth in top appellations across Chile in 1997. There are no hidden pockets of old vines, instead Ventisquero is a shining example of modern vineyard development, matching the clones to the climate and soil.
Viña Ventisquero was new to us when we tasted the wines a few weeks ago and they are just getting their start in the US Market, but WOW, what a lineup—pure, multi-layered wines at unbeatable values. Ventisquero started by buying bare earth in top appellations across Chile in 1997. There are no hidden pockets of old vines, instead Ventisquero is a shining example of modern vineyard development, matching the clones to the climate and soil.
