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Santa Carolina Reserva De Familia Carmenère 2015 Wine Review

Santa Carolina Reserva De Familia Carmenère 2015

Santa Carolina Reserva De Familia Carmenère 2015

Rapel Valley D.O., Chile

Community Score:90/100

Community Reviews: 5

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Price: $22.95

Drink: 2020-2024

Bottle size: 750 ml

Alcohol: 14%

Sweetness: Extra Dry

Wine Type: Red Wine


Winery: Santa Carolina

Agent: Charton Hobbs Inc

Natalie's Score: 92/100

This Carmenère from the Rapel Valley is fragrant with cedar spice, mint and juicy with dark berry, plum and spicy flavours on the palate. Full-bodied and intense, needs some time in cellar to mellow out.

Carmenère food pairings: wine-braised beef, turkey with heavy sauces, wild boar, bison chilli.

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This Santa Carolina Reserva De Familia Carmenère 2015 was reviewed on May 17, 2019 by Natalie MacLean

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Christian Marcoux rated this wine as 90/100 with the following review:

Year after year, Santa Carolina offers excellent quality wine. Once again, the Reserva de Familia Carmenère 2015 adds up to the great wine making of Santa Carolina. Intense aromas of black plum, mission fig, white pepper, green peppercorn, slate, sweet tobacco and oak. Harvested in the Rapel Valley in Chile, this full-bodied wine offers spice notes and a herbal finish. Palate, black plum, cherry, green bell pepper, salt, spice dark chocolate and oak. Enjoy!
From the Rapel Valley Wine Region, Santa Carolina Reserva De Familia 2015 is a savoury, juicy and robust Carmenère loaded with fleshy dark fruit, toasty oak, tar and smoke. some burnt orange undertones. Delicious for sure, but needs about two years in cellar to show its best. - Community Wine Reviews

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