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Seña 2018 600cl

Aconcagua Valley | Chili
CHF 1’405.30
Évaluations et Scores
98 Robert Parker
The 2018 Seña shows the fresher side of the Ocoa zone of the Aconcagua Valley through a Bordeaux blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Malbec, 15% Carmenere, 7% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot; there are small differences, but nothing substantial. As I've seen in other wines from the very complete 2018 vintage, the grapes ripened thoroughly and achieved more flavors and nuances, and the wines are slightly higher in alcohol (14% this year versus 13.3% in 2017, but in reality it's 13.8% ). But the wine seems to have more of everything. The grapes fermented in a combination of stainless steel and concrete vats and matured in new barriques and Stockinger foudres for 22 months, a similar formula as the one used for Viñedo Chadwick. This is a very elegant vintage of Seña, a year with a slow ripening so that the grapes achieved very good ripeness and full development of aromas and flavors, making the wine nuanced and complex, with depth but also freshness and finesse—floral and expressive. The tannins are very fine, polished and elegant, and the wine is long and complex, mixing the best f 2015 and 2016, coming through as a very complete year. It's still a little young and should develop nicely in bottle; it's approachable now, but if you can hold it a little bit more, it should be even better. This has to be the finest vintage of Seña to date. Comparing it with the Chadwick from the same year, there is more freshness and a little more complexity and clout coming form the cooler zone and the palette of varieties used that give more options to achieve more nuance. 100,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in February and March 2020.
Producteur
Chadwick Eduardo
L’une des figures emblématiques de l’univers vineux du Chili, Eduardo Chadwick s’est associé au célèbre producteur californien Robert Mondavi pour créer le premier vin icône chilien : Seña. Son premier millésime en 1995, mis sur le marché en 1997, couronnait une démarche commune visant à produire le plus grand vin rouge du pays. Cette initiative novatrice a fait bien des émules depuis. D’une superficie de 350 hectares, dont 42 plantés en vignes, la propriété s’étend sur les contours vallonnés de l’Aconcagua où sont employées des pratiques biologiques et biodynamiques. L’assemblage diffère d’un millésime à l’autre, mais le plus souvent il se compose de 50% de cabernet-sauvignon, complété de teneurs variables de carménère, malbec, merlot, cabernet franc et petit verdot. Les raisins sont fermentés en cuves inox thermo-régulées, le vin étant ensuite élevé pendant 22 mois en barriques de chêne français neuf. Apprécié des oenophiles et des critiques, Seña s’impose indéniablement comme l’étoile montante du Chili.