Variety: Carmenere
Country of origin: Chile
Wine appellation: Colchagua valley
Vintage: 2003
Alcohol content: 13.7%
Residual sugar: 4.4g/l
Acidity: 5.8g/l
Color: black garnet
Bouquet: marmalade from forest fruits, plums, cherries
Taste: medium body, sweet spices, plum jam, figs, very round and almost without any tannins
Recommended food pairing: chocolate based desserts
Overall score: 82
Price: CZK 149
Stopper: cork
This wine was probably supposed to be opened 2 years ago. It was already going down and it had no tannins to hold it up. In taste there was present mainly forest fruit marmalade, plums and sweet spices like cinnamon with slight hint of Indian chutneys. 15% of the wine was aged in used oak barrels.
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