I was fortunate enough this last week to taste the 2012 vintage of this wine and remembered back to tasting it in 2015, too young to appreciate all of the future potentials of this Bordeaux-inspired blend of 66% Carmenère, 19% Merlot, and 15% Cabernet but tasty never the less . Organically farmed I might add.
Brought to you by the Lapostelle family and sourced from vines planted in the 1920s- almost 100 years old. This is an in-house affair which means it’s all Single Estate grown fruit, bottled at the winery. 100% hand-picked and de-stemmed onsite at the winery with 5 weeks of skin contact before 24 months of barrel aging in French Oak. Expressive fruits on the nose with a potpourri of red, black, and blue fruits with a hint of black pepper. Still got it but with just a hint of aging revealing its age.
Fruit is still bright on the palate with blackberries, plums, red cherries, spices, and blueberries evident. This still has plenty of body and structure and if cellared correctly, this should go another 3 – 5 years without an issue. For those of you that don’t like aged wines, drink now, it’s delicious drinking. If you come across a bottle of this in a wine store, it’s worth buying. Should be priced around $125 or so.
Vine to Table 