Santa Rita, Casa Real, Cabernet Sauvignon

Santa Rita, Casa Real, 750 ml
Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon
Viña Santa Rita, Maipo Valley
Composition: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage: 2007
Oenologist: Cecilia Torres Salinas

Aging: 15 months in medium-toast French oak barrels (95% new).

Pairing:  This is a brilliant wine, constant and precise in its character, all in finesse and harmony, a classic and well known Maipo Valley style. It will pair perfectly with ripe blue cheeses, wild fowl, and lamb, red meat with Roquefort or black pepper sauce. Serve at 16-18°C (60-68°F).

Tasting notes:

Colour: Deep, intense ruby-red in colour.

Aromas: This wine shows complex aromas of red fruits, plums, cherries, and notes of ripe black fruits such as blackberries and blueberries combine with a sweet touch of vanilla and coffee.

Palate: It is a highly concentrated wine, persistent on the palate. Smooth, fine, and delicate tannins and excellent balance. The balance of fruit and acidity complemented by sweet and silky tannins promises long cellaring potential.

Reference value – Case of 9 litres – equivalent to 12 bottles of  750 cc.

Free on board (FOB) at Valparaíso docks, from (USD) US$ 180 to US$ 240.-

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This super premium Estate Bottled Cabernet Sauvignon is only produced in years of exceptional vintages. This wine embraces the knowledge and experience gathered during more than a century of tradition and evolution, always aiming to deliver the best our terroir can offer.

This 100% old-vine Cabernet Sauvignon shows tremendous potential and typicity in the broadest sense of the word. Deep, intense ruby-red in color, with complex aromas of red fruits, plums, cherries, and notes of ripe black fruits such as blackberries and blueberries combine with a sweet touch of vanilla and coffee. The balance of fruit and acidity complemented by sweet and silky tannins promises long cellaring potential.

The grapes were hand picked in our Carneros Viejo vineyard, which has spectacular terroir at the foot of the Andes Mountains in the Maipo Alto Valley. The grapes were selected first on the vine and then again on a selection belt in the winery. The grapes underwent a classic fermentation  82º–84ºF for 12 days followed by a short, 10-day extended maceration, which allowed the new wine to develop silky, elegant tannins with very high fruit expression. As always, malolactic fermentation took place in new French oak barrels. The wine was aged 15 months in medium-toast French oak barrels (95% new).