Antakari Carménère Reserva 2022
Valle de Elqui
Chile's Elqui Valley boasts some of the world’s highest vineyards, as well as clear skies and purest sunshine. Today, thanks to the vision of Italian Giorgio Flessati, it makes great wines too, like this peppery, black fruit Carmenère-Syrah blend.
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Wine Details
- Red - Full Bodied
Chile- Deep purple crimson
- Carménère-based blend
- 10.5 Units
- Vegan
- 14% ABV
- Vegetarian
- 31 December 2024
Flavour Profile
Tasting notes
Rich black fruit, velvet smooth tannins. Great length and balance
Aroma
Blackberry, chocolatey plum and spice aromas
Allergy information
Contains Sulphites
The Wine
Lying next to the Atacama Desert, the Elqui Valley seems an unlikely spot to grow high quality grapes. However, a down draught from the Andes and the Pacific’s Humboldt Current both help to moderate temperatures by day and ensure very cold nights. In addition, the sunlight is exceptionally bright and snowmelt from the Andes provides all the irrigation water required. Viña Falernia, one of only two wineries in the valley, was built in the late 1990s by Italian Giorgio Flessati and won a Trophy with its first vintage. Elqui produces “some particularly gutsy Syrah at altitudes of over 2,000 metres” (World Atlas of Wine), and the Carmenère is equally robust. Deep bramble, cassis and spice character, it's great with lamb. Best decanted.
"Juicy blackberry, black cherry and pepper corns. Very good"
Online Review
Peppery, silky black fruit red – a blend of high-grown Carmenère and Syrah from Chile's Elqui Valley
