2020 Penalolen Cabernet Sauvignon Maipo Valley

2020 Penalolen Cabernet Sauvignon Maipo Valley

2020 Penalolen Cabernet Sauvignon Maipo Valley, Low yields and hand harvesting reflect the care given to the superior fruit from this vineyard located on the gravelly slopes of the Maipo Valley. These standards extend to the cellar, where winemakers carefully sort the grapes and age the wine in French oak barrels for 12 months. The Peñalolén Cabernet Sauvignon also contains Merlot and Cabernet Franc. It is a complex and velvety wine with bold dark fruit and a long finish. This wine earned a score of 90 points from Wine Advocate.

A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux’s Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.

The Maipo Valley is Chile’s most famous wine region. Set in the country’s Central Valley, it is warm and quite dry, often necessitating the use of irrigation. Alluvial soils predominate but are supplemented with loam and clay. The climate in Maipo is best-suited for ripe, full-bodied reds like Cabernet Sauvignon (the region’s mostwidely planted grape),Merlot, Syrah and Carmenère, a Bordeaux variety that has found a successful home in Chile