Casa Lapostolle Merlot Cuvee Alexandre Colchagua Valley 750ML
| Vintage: | 2012 |
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| Winery: | Casa Lapostolle |
| Description: | Tasting Notes:. Color: Intense dark purple color. Nose: Complex and intense nose with red and black fruit such as raspberry and blueberries. Dark plums notes and cacao aromas. Palate: Round. Juicy tannins structure, balance acidity and very persistent finish. Service and Food Pairing:. Ready to drink now or cellar for several years. Decant for 1 hour and serve at 16°C (58°F). Ideal companion for meats and well seasoned dishes with a red wine demiglace such as short ribs and angus beef. Grapes:. 85% Merlot. 15% Carmenère. Harvest:. No precipitation was recorded during this harvest season, and high temperatures during the summer and fall resulted in earlier than normal ripening and harvest. Rainfall was never a concern during this harvest. Concerning the temperatures in spring, September was exceptionally hot. It was a small summer in the middle of the spring. October and November were just a little bit warmer and permitted a nice flowering of our grapevines. Summer started warmer than usual in December. However cool nights refreshed the ambient, raised air humidity, producing more color in the berries and preserve their natural acidity. The ripeness came earlier than usual. We harvested the red varieties 3 weeks earlier to achieve the right level of ripeness. Vinification:. As a general winemaking philosophy, in our Cuvée Alexandre Merlot we look for elegance, balance and ageing potential. Express the terroir of Apalta is our mission; so our winemaking philosophy remains very natural process with minimal intervention. Our key points are 100% hand harvest in small cases of 14 kilos, strict fruit selection by 63% optical state of the art grape selection, Vistalys and 37% hand de-stemming of the grapes at our Clos Apalta Winery, gentle extraction methods and a judicious use of oak to preserve the fruit but integrate the complexity that a wine of this quality deserves. For the vintage 2012 we decided to add 15% of Carmenère to enhance the spicy character of this variety. Our Cuvée Alexandre Merlot was aged for 9 months in French oak barrels: 59% in new oak; 21% in second and 20% in third used French oak barrel. |
| Price: | $ 15.99 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Previously available from We Speak Wine
| Address: |
280 Hoosick St. Troy, NY 12180 United States |
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| Telephone (toll-free): | 866-946-3086 |
| Telephone (regular): | 518-273-0970 |
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