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The winemaking philosophy at Clos Apalta is to reflect the terroir by hand-crafting a wine mostly based on Carmenere. Hand harvested in small cases of 14 kilos, the grapes are 100% manually de-stemmed, then gravity fed in French oak vats. Then nature does its work, allowing native yeasts to slowly ferment the must into wine, under strict temperature control (in order not to exceed 28° C). Extraction were conducted through pigeage, with macerat...
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The Marnier Lapostolle family founded Lapostolle in 1994 with the goal of creating world-class wines by combining the superb terroir of Chile with their French winemaking philosophy. Clos Apalta was introduced in 1997 and awarded the #1 wine of the year by Wine Spectator in 2008. It has consistently received critical praise and is widely considered one of the world's finest wines.
Apalta is located at 170 Kilometers South West from Sant...