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Vina Almaviva
Item number: 0093760
Name: Vina Almaviva
Wine region: Chile - Valle de Maipo
Winemaker: Baron Philippe de Rothschild
Grapes: 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Carmenère, 7% Cabernet Franc, 1% Merlot
Soil: alluvial soils of the Andes
Climate: The year 2007 will remain with us because of its extraordinary quality, balance, concentration and complexity, as no doubt one of the best vintages in memory for Chile! Recorded after a mostly dry winter in the Puente Alto from June to September only a rainfall of 292 mm, the vines started relatively late, but knsopen very very steady. The unusually cold November and rain at flowering causing primarily Cabernet Sauvignon with a significantly reduced number of berries per grape. From December to February, the daytime temperatures rise to extreme. At the same time, cool nights these strong day-night temperature fluctuations a most favorable influence on the maturation and development have thick, dye and tannin-rich skins. The persistently high heat initially causes premature harvest of Merlot grapes (from 26 March) until a temperature drop in April delayed the further maturation process again. The harvest lasts so long in total and ends late on 25 May. Cabernet is from 19 April to 25 Introduced in May, Carmenère, 16 to 23 May. If the vintage so the wine makers also demanded some patience, the grapes were able to get the most from these special conditions and show matured to the point, with a rounded, supple tannins, great aromatic intensity and complexity.
Color: Red
Maturity enjoy: and lagerungsfähig
Description: Color: deep, dense, dark ruby red Bouquet: an opulent bouquet with intense aromas of blackberries, black currants, violets and liquorice, in addition to his notes of vanilla, coffee, black pepper, frankincense, and dark chocolate flavors: dense on the palate, rounded and unique balanced, with aromatic freshness, complexity and concentrated, silky tannin, an embedded, which gives the wine a very soft and sensuous texture, softness and structure, long-lasting, both fleshy and feinmineralische finale leaves a delicious feeling of fullness, strength and harmony, a unique vintage with promising potential!
Serving suggestion: Serve with spicy meat dishes (venison, grilled beef and lamb), smoked sausage or wild game
Serving temperature: 18.00 ° C
open 2 hours before
superposable least until (): up to 2035
Preparation: All the grapes for Almaviva be read carefully by hand into small boxes and placed immediately into the winery, crushed here, again sorted by hand and guided solely by gravity into the fermentation tanks. After the temperature-controlled fermentation, the wines are cooled down and remain for some time on the skins, to thereby remove the grape skins a maximum of succulent flavors, color and soft tannins. The wine is then drained by gravity turn into new French oak barrels, where it blends harmoniously during his 17-month maturity and age also passes through the malolactic fermentation. The mash is gently pressed backward by pressing basket and gained from this press wine later admitted by the butler in small, well-dosed quantities of total cuvée.
General information: The first Almaviva was created in 1996 under the Franco-Chilean joint venture between Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Concha y Toro. The name of the cuvée is one of the main characters in Beaumarchais's "Marriage of Figaro" (the text for Mozart's famous opera of the same) modeled. Almaviva translated means "soul alive!". The sign pictured on the label derived from the culture of the aborigines of the country, the Mapuche Indians who painted them as "Kultrun" designated symbols with a mixture of chicken blood and wine on their drums. The "Kultrun" stands for the universe: the cross symbolizes the North, East, South and West coordinates, which are four points for the four seasons and the semicircles on the winds blowing from different directions.
Bottle size: 0,75 l
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