Almaviva 2016

Name: Almaviva 2016
Brand: AlbertWines2u
SKU: AWS136006
Price: 815.0 MYR
Availability: InStock

RM815.00

SKU: AWS136006

A very fine and elegant Almaviva with fresh fruit and herb character. Medium-to-full body, tight and focused with very fine, linear tannins and a chocolate and light cedar undertone to the whole thing. Savory, too. Smoked meat and succulent. It's tight but opens with air. Classicism here. 66% cabernet sauvignon, 24% carmenere, 8% cabernet franc and 2% petit verdot.

Description

A very fine and elegant Almaviva with fresh fruit and herb character. Medium-to-full body, tight and focused with very fine, linear tannins and a chocolate and light cedar undertone to the whole thing. Savory, too. Smoked meat and succulent. It’s tight but opens with air. Classicism here. 66% cabernet sauvignon, 24% carmenere, 8% cabernet franc and 2% petit verdot.

Jointly owned by Bordeaux’s Chateau Mouton-Rothschild and Chile’s Concha y Toro, Almaviva is an elegant Bordeaux-style red blend. Based on Cabernet Sauvignon, with 24 percent of the distinctive red grape Carmenere in the mix, the 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of this perennial top-scorer. The 150-acre Puente Alto estate lies just south of Chile’s capital of Santiago and is filled with gravels and clays washed down from the towering Andes, which rise to the east; the Carmenere is sourced from the famed Peumo vineyard in the Cachapoal Valley farther south. Winemaker Michel Friou aged the wine 16 months in new French oak.

James Suckling: 97Pts; Robert Parker: 95Pts; Wine Spectator: 95Pts

No10 of Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines of 2019

More About The Bottle

Alcohol Level: 14.00%

Size: 750ml

Brand: Almaviva

Country:Chile

Family: Red Wine

Grape Variety: 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Carmenere, 8% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot

Vintage: 2016

Region: Maipo Valley

Product Details

Alcohol Level: 14.00%

Size: 750ml

Brand: Almaviva

Country:Chile

Family: Red Wine

Grape Variety: 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Carmenere, 8% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot

Vintage: 2016

Region: Maipo Valley

Tasting Notes

Full-bodied

Raspberry

Oaky

Chocolate

Leather

About the Brand

In 1997, Baroness Philippine de Rothschild and Don Alfonso Larrain, Chairman of Concha y Toro, concluded a partnership agreement in order to create a fine Franco-Chilean wine called Almaviva. The Almaviva estate includes a mansion and a winery as well as a 50 hectare (124-acre) vineyard planted with three typical Bordeaux grape varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Carmenere. The wine is the result of the successful encounter of two cultures: Chile offers its soil, its climate and its vineyard, while France brings its winegrowing traditions and expertise.
The name Almaviva is taken from classic French literature: Count Almaviva is a central figure in the famous play The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais (1732-1799), turned into an opera by the genius of Mozart. The label bears the name “Almaviva” in Beaumarchais’ own hand and pays tribute to Chile’s ancestral history with three reproductions of a symbolic drawing from the Mapuche civilisation.

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