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#16 Mountain Cabernet – Maipo Alto (now released)

If you loved #14 you are certainly going to love this year’s mountain Cab. For those of you who invested early you are going to be thrilled about this wine [please forgive my excessive modesty for now until you try the wine and understand]. This is the same fruit from the Upper Maipo, that we [...]

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#17 Carignan / Field Blend (now released)

This might be called our funky wine for 2008. It is the marraige of Old Bush Vine (80+yrs) Carignan from Maule  [75%] and a Field Blend we made from Maipo 25%. The Carignan is fascinating for its freshness, spiceness, different flavour profile and perhaps most because it comes from an area where vineyards have over [...]

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#18 Cabernet / Carignan Pre-release

This wine is perhaps a species of “ending of our beginning” for GWCo.
The base or core of this wine is Cabernet from the Maipo made in classic style with both floral elegance, big shouldered firmness and that deep brooding fruit of our previous vintages working with this fruit.
Various lots go in to this meritage some [...]

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Cata de los Andes / Andean Duel of the Tannins

Every year in a tasting that is called the Cata de Los Andes 12 top Chilean wines face off against 12 top notch Argentines. derek.jpgIt is a professional blind tasting of thirty winemaker judges from each side– a duel of Andean tannins as it were. This year the wine makers of G.W.Co were invited and…

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