A broad, muscular style, with cocoa and black currant paste notes followed by fleshy fig, loam and tar. Yet stays fresh, with a lingering tobacco note and nice latent grip. Drink now through 2011. 5,000 cases made, 1,000 cases imported.??–JM??Region: Chile / Central Valley-Chile / Maule / Maule Valley Select to Add

A controlled opening is welcome, as are the soft, smooth aromas of tobacco, dark plum and warm earth. Full and generous in the mouth, with heft and balance. Tastes like a mix of roasted dark plum, blackberry, fig and spice. Big and blowsy, but it emphasizes what’s good about new age Carmenere.——M.S.(12/1/2010)—— 89