Early inspections of fruit now well past budding high in the Maipo. The true maturing season has clearly started late this year. This is not an indication of 2010 quality nor complexity, but rather just a delay in the growing season’s beginning. Temperatures have subsequently been cooler than most years but hot peaks have struck [...]
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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…
Más Cabernet / More Cab from Maipo Valley (dry-farmed)
Ya recibimos otra fruta de Cabernet con tremenda potencial. Los granos son chicos y muy concentrado con taninos ricos. We have received a second high-calibre Cabernet from the Maipo Valley strictly dry-farmed. The berry size is very small, the fruit concentrated as all-get-out. We now have mountain fruit, dry farmed fruit, and very-old-vine fruit [...]
Maceración en frio / Cold maceration
La fruta ha llegado con taninos tremendos. No hay apuro en comenzar la fermentación. The fruit has arrived and exceeded expectations. We are in no hurry to begin fermenting, and thus the fruit will be macerating for various days…
