2005 / 06 Montes ALPHA (Premium Range) Cabernet Sauvignon Colchagua Valley Chile
Name:
Montes ALPHA (Premium Range) Cabernet Sauvignon Colchagua Valley Chile - 2005 / 06
Where it's from:
>Chile
>Rapel
>Colchagua Valley
Price per case:
£148.05
Bottle size:
75 cl
Bottles per case:
12
Style:
Powerful Reds
Grapes:
Cabernet Sauvignon
Description:
One of the top Chilean Cabernets, aged for 12 months in French oak. Sourced from 100 year-old vines. Intense ruby in colour with red fruits, evocations of blackcurrant, chocolate and cigar box, in balance with well-integrated oak (French Alliers fine-grained oak). Of great complexity in the mouth, in mid-palate is full-bodied and balanced with a lasting persistence and a remarkable finish. Although a superb wine as it is, it may also be considered as a great wine for cellaring. Our first (1987) version was recently selected among the best ten year old red wines in the world. Montes Alpha was the first of the premium Chilean wines. Initially only Cabernet was available, but the range has expanded to include both Chardonnay and Merlot. All the wines exhibit concentration, elegance and sophistication, and come from very old, low-yielding, ungrafted vines with pre-phylloxera rootstocks. The wines are made by Aurelio Montes, one of the most respected of all the Chilean winemakers, who has just released the first super-premium wine from Chile, Montes Alpha "M".
