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  • Decanting time

    1.5h
  • When to drink

    2018-2022
  • Food Pairing

    Roasted duck brest

The Story

Our Montes Alpha Carmenère is made with selected grapes from our Colchagua Valley vineyards grown under our “Dry Farming” philosophy. Under this system we leave nature to do the job of irrigation through rain. We don’t irrigate unless nature does not provide us with the enough minimum rain that we have determined our vines need in which case we irrigate to compensate the difference. Dry Farming increases the final quality of the wines with more ripe fruit, and more weight in the mouth, decreasing the use of water up to 65%.

The grapes come from our El Arcángel Marchigüe estate, located at the western end of Colchagua valley, where, 18 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean, the relatively cool climate allows this late-ripening variety to mature slowly and smoothly and reach full ripeness. Clay soils give strength and power to the wine. After fermentation, the wine is moved to French oak barrels where it is aged for 12 months.

Vineyard details: The grapes destined for our Alpha Carmenère come from vineyards located in the Marchigüe sector of the Colchagua Valley. The soils are of granitic origin and vary in their clay content, depth, organic matter, and especially in the types of stones found, which range from fluvial to glacial in origin, thus giving an idea of the diversity of soils in our El Arcángel estate. They are relatively shallow—in some cases no more than 60 cm, with medium clay content and a high capacity for water retention.

The topography is predominately flat with hills of low to medium height, and the vineyards are located in the areas with a less-pronounced slope. Vineyard density is 5,555 plants per hectare (2,250 pl/acre), and the vines are double guyot trellised for an approximate yield of 7,000 kg/ha (2.8 ton/acre). The leaves closest to the bunches are removed in early January, leaving them completely exposed to the sun to enable homogenous ripening and even more importantly, to reduce the variety’s characteristic pyrazine content.

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Origin

Santa Cruz, Colchagua

Grapes

10% Cabernet Sauvignon
90% Carmenère

Ageing

  • in oak 100% for 12 months

Investment potential

No Potential

Fake factory

None

Glass time

45min

Drinking temperature

17C

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