TASTE: Big, full-bodied, mouth filling wine with a long finish. Excellent drinking now, it will continue to develop and gain complexity with further bottle ageing.

Villard EXPRESION Chardonnay Casablanca Valley Chile

Name: Villard EXPRESION Chardonnay Casablanca Valley Chile - 2005 / 06
Where it's from:  >Chile >Aconcagua >Casablanca Valley
Price per case: £100.37 
Bottle size: 75 cl
Bottles per case: 12
Style: Rich Dry Whites
Grapes: Chardonnay
Description: AROMA: Complex nose and structure derived from the combination of fruit, barrel fermentation and ageing in French oak. Displays soft tropical fruit and vanilla aromas and flavours.
TASTE: Big, full-bodied, mouth filling wine with a long finish. Excellent drinking now, it will continue to develop and gain complexity with further bottle ageing.
VINIFICATION: Fermentation was initiated in a temperature controlled stainless steel tank at 15ºC. 50% of the juice was then transferred to French oak hogsheads, where fermentation lasted 15 days.
STORAGE: 50% of the wine was kept in French oak barrels for 9 months with regular "batonage". The other 50% was kept in stainless steel tanks. It was then assembled and stored in stainless steel tanks prior to bottling.
Country: Chile
Region: Aconcagua
Sub region: Casablanca Valley
Producer: Villard Estate
Product ID: 45289
Number of cases : 
Delivery Timescales: 10
Villard EXPRESION Pinot Noir Casablanca Valley Chile
COLOUR: Beautiful bright strawberry red. AROMA: Fresh berries such as strawberries and raspberries. TASTE: Good complexity between fruit and a touch of oak, finishing with extremely good length VINIFICATION: 5 days maceration at 8ºC prior to fermentation with 'pigeage', which lasted 6 days. STORAGE: 22% of wine stored in French barrels for 12 months, then assembled with the remaining 78% in October (12 x 75 cl)
Villard EXPRESION Sauvignon Blanc Casablanca Valley Chile
AROMA: Very complex and covers a wide range of aromas: citrus, floral , fruits such as apricot and white peach and tropical fruit such as fresh passion fruit. TASTE: Tropical fruit and citrus. Excellent structure, refreshing acidity, with a long, crisp finish. VINIFICATION: Part of the grapes were pressed as whole clusters and the juice was fermented in stainless steel tanks at low temperature for 30 days. The rest of the grapes were crushed and the juice was then cold controlled fermented in stainless steel tanks for 18 days at 12 to 15ºC. The resulting wine was left for two days on lees prior to being decanted. The two lots were then blended and left on fine lees for two and a half months, being periodically pushed into suspension with inert gas to give more volume to the wine. It was then decanted, cold stabilised and filtered before bottling. (12 x 75 cl)
Villard EL NOBLE Botrytis Sauvignon Blanc Casablanca Valley Chile
AROMA: Pear, white peach, dried apricot and almond aromas, with notes of citrus and honey. TASTE: Displays pear and dried apricot flavours. This exquisite wine is rich and complex, with a good balance between sugar and acidity and a long, dry finish. VINIFICATION: The grapes for this wine were produced from the same vineyard as the Expresión Sauvignon Blanc. The bunches were left on vines for four weeks after the normal harvest allowing them to naturally develop botrytis and concentrate sugars. The grapes were pressed for seven and half hours and the juice was fermented in 300 litre French oak barrels. The wine was then aged in the same barrels for 28 months. (12 x 37.5 cl)
Villard EXPRESION Merlot Casablanca Valley Chile
AROMA: Good integration of rich ripe varietal fruit with a distinctive touch of laurel and French oak. TASTE: Fine varietal flavour of ripe plums and red berries with the added complexity of ageing in French oak. Well-balanced, soft, but with firm tannins and long finish. AGEING: Although perfectly balanced for current drinking, further bottle ageing would yield an even more complex wine. (12 x 75 cl)
Kingston Family Vineyards TOBIANO Pinot Noir Casablanca Valley Chile
Kingston Family Vineyards TOBIANO Pinot Noir Casablanca Valley Chile from Chile, Aconcagua, Casablanca Valley by Kingston Family Vineyards Casablanca Valley (12 x 75 cl)
Kingston Family Vineyards CARIBLANCO Sauvignon Blanc Casablanca Valley Chile
Kingston Family Vineyards CARIBLANCO Sauvignon Blanc Casablanca Valley Chile from Chile, Aconcagua, Casablanca Valley by Kingston Family Vineyards Casablanca Valley (12 x 75 cl)
Kingston Family Vineyards BAYO OSCURO Syrah Casablanca Valley Chile
Kingston Family Vineyards BAYO OSCURO Syrah Casablanca Valley Chile from Chile, Aconcagua, Casablanca Valley by Kingston Family Vineyards Casablanca Valley (12 x 75 cl)
Errazuriz ESTATE Chardonnay Casablanca Valley Chile
Ripe apple and pear with tropical aromas in the background. The palate is medium bodied, rich and expansive with yeasty and some buttery notes overlaying the fruit components. The finish is tropical fruit complemented by pineapple, peach and vanilla. (6 x 75 cl)
Aresti Estate SELECTION Chardonnay Riserva Casablanca Valley Chile
Brilliant yellow in colour, vanilla notes on the nose with citric fruit. Full bodied on the palate with a well structured and a long finish. (12 x 75 cl)
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