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This fabulous Chilean red is really top drawer – 94 points from WA and Suckling. It’s the second wine of world-renowned Clos Apalta, made with the same precision care, but with a little less oak, to enjoy earlier. Rich Grand Cru sophistication.
This fabulous Chilean red is really top drawer – 94 points from WA and Suckling. It’s the second wine of world-renowned Clos Apalta, made with the same precision care, but with a little less oak, to enjoy earlier. Rich Grand Cru sophistication.
Tasting notes
Powerful and tightly furled berry fruit, spice, leaf and oak
Aroma
Ripe creamy plum, rose petal and toffee, fragrant and lifted
Allergy information
Contains sulphites
More information
Clos Apalta and second wine, Le Petit Clos, come from a special part of the Colchagua Valley. The vines have a north to south exposure, rare for Chile, and a microclimate that’s unique to them. The Tinguiririca river runs down one side, while the hills of the coastal Cordillera form a horseshoe shape around the other. This blocks out sunlight at sunrise and sunset, thereby drawing out the ripening and helping to make these remarkable, intense, long lived wines. Le Petit Clos is made from classic Bordeaux varieties and goes through the same meticulous methods as Clos Apalta. 'Malo' and the first six months ageing takes place in pure new oak, before it spends another 16 months in a mix of new and seasoned barrels. A magnificent red for beef.