Country of origin: Chile
Wine appellation: Central Valley
Vintage: 2005
Alcohol content: 13%
Color: straw yellow
Bouquet: pineapple, ripe melon, citrusy
Taste: medium body, tropical ripe fruit mainly pineapple, followed by green melon, and slight tomes of ripe pear, round, hint of nuts, medium finish
Recommended food pairing: fruit salad,
Overall score: 83
Price: CZK 199
Stopper: cork
Concha y toro never disappoints us. This is very nice, balanced, fruity chardonnay in bouquet, This wine benefits from the aging in my cellar. You can get 2008 vintages in the supermarkets now. I also like the fact that despite being the base row it is sealed with real cork, which, given my experience, is absolutely best stopper for aging, followed by screw top and then vinolock (glass stopper). Plastic cork is absolutely unsuitable for aging. It leaks oxygen more than real cork. Majority of the wines in my cellar with plastic cork age about twice faster than those sealed with real cork.
Lenka picked this bottle and she was right.
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