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For over two decades Ch. Mouton Rothschild has worked with Concha y Toro to craft Almaviva – one of Chile’s finest wines. The 2019 vintage was relatively dry and warm, producing concentrated fruit. The nose is full and rich with notes of vibrant cassis and bramble fruit, sweet spice and pencil lead, with a creamy vanilla richness and herbal complexity. On the palate, it is creamy and plush with dark, almost viscous, fulsome and expansive fruit. The tannins are plump and polished, while the finish is just a little dry at present – the oak (18 months in 100% new French barrique) needing time to integrate.
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The 2019 Almaviva is a blend of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Carmenère (from Peumo), 5% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot and 1% Merlot, higher in Carmenere and reflecting a warmer and drier vintage when then bottled wine reached 15% alcohol. It fermented with destemmed grapes in stainless steel and matured in French oak barrels, 75% of them new, for 18 months. Here, the Carmenere adds herbal freshness and changes the aromatic profile when compared with the 2019 Epu. 2019 was a good year for Carmenere, which suffers in extremely warm years like 2017, but in moderately warm years like 2019, the variety displays that herbal character and has good density. It's full-bodied and round, with saturated tannins, tasty, spicy and long, with a dry, serious finish. It's balsamic, with notes of camphor and a silky and velvety texture. 200,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2021.
The aromas of iodine and blackcurrants with roses and lavender make the wine extremely perfumed. It's full-bodied with a tight, fine-tannined palate that shows linear flow through the center palate. It's vertical and integrated, adding depth and serious quality to the wine.
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Almaviva is a collaboration between two giants in the world of wine – Bordeaux’s Ch. Mouton Rothschild and Concha y Toro.