My Article: The Newest Vintage of Almaviva – 2013
The newest vintage of one of Chile’s icon wines, Almaviva 2013, is terrific quality due to its wonderful finesse, depth, and length, giving the wine a beautiful purity of fresh fruit and clarity. The winery says that the outstanding quality is due to the cool grape-growing season in the Puente Alto region near the capital of Santiago and the longest harvest on record that lasted from April 17 to May 23. You can certainly taste all this in the wine due to the finesse and intensity of fruit that underlines the cool climate prowess of Chile on a whole. I find the 2013 very close in quality to the superb 2010. And I find the 2013 extremely attractive to drink now. It’s a blend of 72% cabernet sauvignon, 19% carmenere, 6% cabernet franc, 2% petit verdot and 1% merlot.
The wine of Almaviva, owned by Bordeaux first-growth Château Mouton Rothschild and Chile’s Concha y Toro, is released each September in Bordeaux with a number of top wine merchants, just like the top names of the region such as Château Margaux or Château Cheval Blanc.
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