Casa Lapostolle Clos Apalta Half 2017
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Casa Lapostolle Clos Apalta Half 2017
HED59475
37.5 cl
15%
£50.00
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Clos Apalta is a blend of Carménère, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. The wine shows a complex nose of ripe black fruits such as cassis, blackberries and figs, along with nuts, cinnamon and liquorice. Intense creamy attack with black fruit flavours. Long-lasting velvety tannins, followed by an intense and elegant finish.
94 Vinous
The 2017 Red Blend Clos Apalta is a blend of grapes from Apalta: 48% Carménère, 26% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot, aged in new and used French barrels in an 85/15 split. The ripe profile makes it a garnet red in the glass with an open, nuanced aromatic profile of spices, black currant, plum and red currant somewhere between ripe and candied, along with hints of smoke, cigar box and tobacco over a layer of ash. Intense in the mouth, it has fine, juicy tannins with an alcoholic kick that energizes the flow, packaged in a good body with an elegant structure. A wine that grows with each layer and sets a benchmark for the style.Joaquin Hidalgo1st May 2021
92 Robert Parker
The 2017 Clos Apalta is the 20th vintage of this wine that was produced with a blend of 48% Carmenere, 26% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot from organic and biodynamic certified vineyards on granite soils. It fermented with indigenous yeasts for four to five weeks, with manual punch-down of the cap, mostly in 7,500-liter French oak vats and 18% in new French barrique. Malolactic was in new French oak barrels, and the élevage lasted for 27 months in 85% new barrels and 15% second use. This is always a powerful, big and ripe wine that is regularly 15% alcohol, reflecting a warm and ripe place. The 2017 is no exception, perhaps a riper and more powerful wine than the 2016. It`s still very young and marked by the élevage, with abundant balsamic aromas and notes from the wood—spice and smoke with an ashy touch. It seems quite marked by the character of the Carmenere. The tannins are quite round and polished, and the flavors are pungent and powerful. It`s a full-bodied wine to age in in bottle and enjoy in its 10th birthday with powerful food. 90,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in September 2019. - Luis Gutiérrez
17 Jancis Robinson
48% Carmenere, 26% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot. Special bottle this year – blue-black glass engraved with gold writing – to mark 20 years of Clos Apalta. A dry winter and cold spring led to a very hot summer, with days reaching 28 °C. There were 26 days reaching, or exceeding, 33 °C in January alone – making it Chile’s hottest month on record. Thankfully, these temperatures dropped in March, though there were still spikes in the 30s.Deep ruby. Intense ripe tomato on the nose, layered with sweet black fruit. The palate follows, with a superb texture of plentiful but fine tannins. There is a hint of graphite and vine tomato, but the core of plummy, cherry fruit is more dominant than on the nose. The acidity is brisk, cutting through all else on a long, spicy finish. (TP)
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