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  • Country ranking ?

    29
  • Producer ranking ?

    8
  • Decanting time

    6h
  • When to drink

    2025-2030
  • Food Pairing

    Pepper steak with fries

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The Story

The Super Carmenère of Montes

This superb wine represents a whole new dimension for Carmenère, the long-lost grape variety that recently resurfaced in Chile after being presumed extinct in Bordeaux, its original home. In Chile, we consider it our ‘signature’ variety and call it the ‘Jurassic Park’ grape that returned from the past.

Montes were pioneers on the Chilean wine scene when we created our super-premium wines: the Montes Alpha ra...

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Wine Information

Production: 17,400 cases of 6 bottles

Alcohol: 14.7%

pH: 3.54 g/l

Total Acidity: 3.42 g/l

Residual Sugar: 2.70 g/l

Filtering: Average filtration through micropore filters

Yield of Vineyard: 3.7 tons/ha (Hand-picked during night harvest. Grape by grape selection)

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Information

Origin

Santa Cruz, Colchagua

Grapes

8% Petit Verdot
92% Carmenère

Ageing

  • in oak 100% for 18 months

Investment potential

No Potential

Fake factory

None

Glass time

2h

Drinking temperature

18C

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