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Wine Description
The Story
Pangea is an ultra premium wine with an exceptional combination of concentration, flavours and aromas. Dark and intense in colour, Pangea offers complex, delicious aromas which reflect the fact that this is a Syrah from the Apalta valley. The nose reveals notes of black fruit harmoniously intermingled with spices such as black pepper and dark chocolate, together with notes of damp earth and minerals like graphite. A wine of ripe, firm tannins and great structure, Pangea is at its best when given time to breathe. With a style of vinification that seeks balanced wines, slow fermentations, slightly lower temperatures, helps us to achieve the best expression of our fruit and minerality, obtaining soft and long tannins, with good concentration and elegance, along with balanced acidity, an a ideal wine for gastronomic. Then after a guard of 20 months in French oak barrels, It was then further bottle-aged for 12 months, getting a balanced and concentrated wine that keeps all the purity, elegance and vitality of our fruit.
Variety: 100% Syrah
Denomination of origin: Apalta vineyard, Colchagua Valley.
Soil: Granitic soil with red clay and mineral deposits, such as quartz and iron typical of the soils of Apalta. A depth of 1.5 to 2 metres and an altitude of around 250 to 300 metres above sea level.
Winemaking: The grapes rst underwent a low-temperature pre-fermentative maceration for 5 to 7 days to bring out the maximum colour and aromas. Next came the fermentation in small, three to ve ton stainless steel tanks and open vats of one to two tons at a temperature of between 22°C and 26°C. The wine then underwent a post-fermentative maceration for at least 15 days. Then it was decanted into barrels and subjected to malolactic fermentation with native bacteria to lend greater complexity to the wine.
Ageing: All of this wine was aged for 22 months in ultra- ne grain French oak barrels to give it long ageing potential. Half of the barrels were new, while the other half had been used once. Then it was bottle-aged for at least 18 months.
Blend: Each component was kept separate and the blend was only made two weeks prior to bottling. This wine has not been clari ed or ltered, so natural sediments may appear over time.
