Opened a Clos Apalta 2016 recently and it was singing during a steak dinner. My BIL who is an occasional wine drinker dubbed it “nectar from the gods”. High praise and well-deserved, superb balance with just the right amount of those green notes!
Hello!! Great video. As I watched it I opened a bottle of "Tierras Moradas", a 2022 carmenere from Viña San Pedro. Paid a bit under 20 bucks for it and it's a killer wine. It comes from the Maule River Valley so from a tad colder weather than the ones you tried today. Put it in your list for your Chile trip. Salud!!
Carmenere is great, i usually buy it in hot vintages, the bell pepper becomes more restrained and shows elegance and leanness that other Bordeaux varieties don't get in hot years.
Interesting, Liberty Vineyards on the Lake Erie wine trail in Western New York found they had Carmenere too that they thought was Merlot. Their's is great also. Love this grape, made some homemade wine from Chilian juice. Makes good wine. Thanks for the great reviews, and I enjoyed your wine glass review too. Dennis Rosa
Dear Dr Matthew, i loved this video. i can say that i’m a carmenere hunter…rsrs. Is hard to get in chille the ones without high notes of pirazine. But when you get this ones is pure joy. If you haven’t tried yet, please give a chance to Carmin the peumo, purple angel (both from chile) and the villa canthus carmenere (small producer from italy). For me, are outstanding wines Ps: as you, huge fan of san leonardo wine. And i loved oblicqua as well
As someone who is used to Chilean Carmenere, I found the San Leonardo version to be a breath of fresh air. When I had it, it took a while to open up. After 5-6 hours and on the next day it moved from 90 pts to 93+ for me. The main difference to me was the acid. Most standard Chilean Carmenere have a darker fruit profile and are lower in acid. The San Leonardo one was more red fruit driven pushing it towards Sangiovese or Loire CF, but it could depend on the vintage. Another Carmenere to seek out is Antiyal Escorial Carmenere which is completely unoaked and red-fruit driven. One of the best for the price is De Martino's Alto de Piedras.
i havent had much luck with carmenere in the past because i felt they lack the complexity that i find in many other grapes but after this video i will attempt to find one of these recommendations.perhaps the ones with a touch of cabernet franc will awaken my senses.
If you want great value and love carmenere, get the Le Petit Clos Apalta before it gets too expensive. Get the 2018/19 if you can find it. It goes for around $40 - $45.
Appreciate the detailed breakdown! I need some advice: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
Unfortunately one of the issues with entry-level wine is the absence of varietal characteristic. If we take Carmenere as an example, I have only tried fairly cheap versions from Chile and I can barely tell from those what the grape variety is supposed to taste like. I seem to recall chocolate notes but apart from that I'm not sure.
I was hoping to see Montes Purple Angel under one of those bags. I've never tried it because of the price but I've tried quite a few tasty Carmeneres around $20-25 that I always enjoy.
Opened a Clos Apalta 2016 recently and it was singing during a steak dinner. My BIL who is an occasional wine drinker dubbed it “nectar from the gods”. High praise and well-deserved, superb balance with just the right amount of those green notes!
Hello!! Great video. As I watched it I opened a bottle of "Tierras Moradas", a 2022 carmenere from Viña San Pedro. Paid a bit under 20 bucks for it and it's a killer wine. It comes from the Maule River Valley so from a tad colder weather than the ones you tried today. Put it in your list for your Chile trip. Salud!!
Carmenere is great, i usually buy it in hot vintages, the bell pepper becomes more restrained and shows elegance and leanness that other Bordeaux varieties don't get in hot years.
Interesting, Liberty Vineyards on the Lake Erie wine trail in Western New York found they had Carmenere too that they thought was Merlot. Their's is great also. Love this grape, made some homemade wine from Chilian juice. Makes good wine. Thanks for the great reviews, and I enjoyed your wine glass review too. Dennis Rosa
Dear Dr Matthew, i loved this video. i can say that i’m a carmenere hunter…rsrs. Is hard to get in chille the ones without high notes of pirazine. But when you get this ones is pure joy. If you haven’t tried yet, please give a chance to Carmin the peumo, purple angel (both from chile) and the villa canthus carmenere (small producer from italy). For me, are outstanding wines
Ps: as you, huge fan of san leonardo wine. And i loved oblicqua as well
As someone who is used to Chilean Carmenere, I found the San Leonardo version to be a breath of fresh air. When I had it, it took a while to open up. After 5-6 hours and on the next day it moved from 90 pts to 93+ for me. The main difference to me was the acid. Most standard Chilean Carmenere have a darker fruit profile and are lower in acid. The San Leonardo one was more red fruit driven pushing it towards Sangiovese or Loire CF, but it could depend on the vintage. Another Carmenere to seek out is Antiyal Escorial Carmenere which is completely unoaked and red-fruit driven. One of the best for the price is De Martino's Alto de Piedras.
i havent had much luck with carmenere in the past because i felt they lack the complexity that i find in many other grapes but after this video i will attempt to find one of these recommendations.perhaps the ones with a touch of cabernet franc will awaken my senses.
Thank you for the video on Carmenere, have really gotten into the Chilean wines as of late, great alternative to Pinot noir and Sangiovese
If you want great value and love carmenere, get the Le Petit Clos Apalta before it gets too expensive. Get the 2018/19 if you can find it. It goes for around $40 - $45.
Appreciate the detailed breakdown! I need some advice: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
Black hills in the okanagan makes a good one
Unfortunately one of the issues with entry-level wine is the absence of varietal characteristic. If we take Carmenere as an example, I have only tried fairly cheap versions from Chile and I can barely tell from those what the grape variety is supposed to taste like. I seem to recall chocolate notes but apart from that I'm not sure.
I was hoping to see Montes Purple Angel under one of those bags. I've never tried it because of the price but I've tried quite a few tasty Carmeneres around $20-25 that I always enjoy.
You’ll see it in a future video