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| PIRCAS DE LIGUAI CABERNET SAUVIGNON 2013 Maipo Valley |
| Vintage Assessments Tasting Note |
Producer |
PÉREZ CRUZ |
| Intense deep purple colour. Intense, slightly spicy, bright, very faintly peppery, somewhat herbal, ripe plum nose with some cedary notes. Dry, medium bodied, quite well structured, very slightly spicy, intense, still youthful, ripe plum flavours with a lingering, high acid, somewhat terse, very gently cedary finish. Has 14% alcohol and 2 g/L residual sugar with lot number L08415C on the lower part of the glass bottle. TONY ASPLER / 88.5-points / BUY - Concentrated blackcurrant nose with spicy oak notes; medium to full-bodied, sweet blackcurrant flavour; well-structured and firm. |
CSPC |
536839 |
| Type |
Red Table Wine |
| Agent |
Cha Hob |
| Country |
Chile |
| Region |
 |
| Rating |
**+(89 points)
Dry, Tangy, Quite Well Structured |
| LCBO Text |
Status |
A Vintage Assessments Explorer's Selection! |
| TASTING NOTE: The top of the range Cabernet Sauvignon is the 2013 Pircas de Liguai Cabernet Sauvignon, a selection from their 12 hectares of Cabernet Sauvignon cropped from a cold and late harvest. The grapes underwent a three-day cold soak and then fermented with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel vats with a total maceration time of some 25 days. It matured in new and second use French oak barrels for 16 months. The wine has the light and the brightness, balsamic and very classical Maipo. You'd never mistake this for a Bordeaux, but it has the seriousness of the tannins that made Bordeaux famous. This comes from a cold year that provided very good freshness and wines that are developing very slowly. This wine will be launched in May-June 2017. It's very drinkable but should also develop more complexity in bottle. Alluvial soils close to the mountains have less clay. In colluvial soils (the stones are moved by wind, not by water), there's usually a little more clay, and the grapes used for this wine come from a combination of both soils. A textbook Maipo Cabernet. 18,600 bottles were filled in March 2015. Drink date: 2017- 2023. Score - 93 (Luis Gutierrez, robertparker.com, April 28, 2017) |
Price |
$ 29.95 |
| Bottle Size |
750 mL |
| Tasting Date |
vintages release - November 25, 2017 |
| Cases bought |
1817 (6 bottles per case) |
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Score:
- Not Presented * Below Average
*+ OK
** Good
**+ Excellent
*** Outstanding
***+ Exceptional
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