2022 San Pedro Sideral 750ML

2022 San Pedro Sideral 750ML  It’s packed with dark berries, notes of chocolate, cedar, cassis, and plum. Juicy and fresh on the tongue, more dark fruits weave around a core of fine grained tannins. With more air the flavors expand, more spice, minerals and juicy blackberry fruit leading into a long smooth finish that seems to last for minutes. Superb now, and I expect it’ll age gracefully for at least a decade.
Lively, inviting aromas of spicy black berries and cherries. Vibrant red fruit attack gives way to a rich, concentrated palate with fine tannins, layered with plum, sour cherry, blackberries and dusty cassis notes on the finish. Will improve with age.
The aromas are ripe, inviting and complex: black cherry, blackcurrant, roasted red pepper, Worcester berry and treacle. In the mouth, it is rich and soft, with rounded, velvety tannins and lovely juicy fruit character. A superbly well-balanced and well-rounded wine, this is ever so easy to enjoy. It is composed of an historic blend of Bordeaux grape varieties, and the fruit was grown in the high quality Andean Cachapoal Valley sub-region of the larger Rapel Valley.

I’m still in shock and I can’t believe what a great value this is! In operation since 1865, Viña San Pedro is one of the top three vine growers in Chile. Today’s great wine comes from their Cachapoal Andes winery, home to their finest wines. The 2022 San Pedro ‘Sideral’ is a classic Cabernet based blend from old vines. Sideral , from the Latin word sideralis, meaning constellation, embodies the harmony and combination of each grape into a blend of perfect harmony. Suckling has named Sideral as one of his ‘Top 100 Wines From Chile’. Chile is home to some of the greatest red wine in the world, 100pt wines like Sena; Almaviva, Chadwick and Clos Apalta. Cachapoal and its high elevation vineyards has put its name up there with Chile’s best wine regions. The wine is superbly well balanced and well rounded, so easy to enjoy with its juicy fruit concentration and it velvety soft tannins. I often get the question, if you spend more, let say over $60 on a bottle of wine, can you really taste the difference, is it that much better? This is a great opportunity to experience the difference in quality without having to pay $60 plus to find out!