2010 Cabernet Sauvignon, De Gras
(6x75cl)
| Product Code: | 32526110 |
| Description: | 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon, De Gras |
| Case Size: | 6x75cl |
| Producer: | De Gras, Vina MontGras |
| Region: | Colchagua Valley |
| Country: | Chile |
| Alc. By Vol.: | 13 |
Grape Varieties
| 100% | Cabernet Sauvignon |
Food Matching Note:
Roast turkey with herbed bread stuffing and giblet gravy, roast lamb with spiced red cabbage or beef medallions in red wine sauce.
Tasting Note:
Brilliant red with hints of bay leaf, herbs and spicy blackcurrants on the nose, typically Chilean in style. The palate offers blackcurrant, cassis and blackberry, soft tannins with lingering spicy fruit and a firm finish.
Detailed Tasting Note:
Colour:~Brilliant red.
Nose:~Hints of bay leaf, herbs and spicy blackcurrants, very varietal in style.
Palate:~Blackcurrant, cassis and blackberry, soft tannins with lingering spicy ~~fruit and a firm finish.
Grape:
Made from the traditional French grape Cabernet Sauvignon.
Location:
From the heart of the Colchagua Valley in Chile.
Flavour:
Full bodied and filled with ripe cassis and berry fruit flavours with hints of spice.
USP:
An excellent Chilean expression of the Cabernet Sauvignon grape.
Combined:
A big powerful Chilean statement on the Cabernet Sauvignon grape loaded with characteristic blackcurrant flavour.
Vinification Note:
The hand harvested bunches are harvested when ripe and brought to the winery in perfect condition where the are crushed into steel tanks with the skins. Maceration is for 2 weeks during fermentation and the wine undergoes a period of ageing in vat before bottling and release.