Sena 2011
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Sena 2011
HED23271
75 cl
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£125.00
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Viña Seña 2011 is a mature, medium-to-full-bodied Bordeaux-style blend from the Aconcagua region of Chile. Viña Seña was established as a collaborative project between Edouardo Chadwick of Viña Errázuriz and Robert Mondavi. Its goal was to produce a Bordeaux-style blend with a distinctively Chilean character (provided by the inclusion of Carmenere in the blend).The 2011 vintage is a blend of 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Carmenere, 15% Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc. The wine was aged in 75% new French oak barrels for 22 months. "It has a bright cherry colour and restrained aromas of blackberries, spices, cedar wood, tobacco and a hint of mint. The palate is a little tight and restrained, and the wine medium-bodied, with balanced concentration and good acidity. Young but accessible, it shows great elegance and balance. I like it more than the older vintages that I had the chance to taste for context. It needs to develop the bouquet and complexity that, without a doubt, will come with time in bottle. Drink 2015-2027." Luis Gutierrez, 2014
95 Vinous
The 2011 Seña was harvested at the end of a low-yield season in which temperatures were cool and ripening slow. A blend of 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Carménère, 15% Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc, aged for 22 months in three quarters new barrels. Garnet red in the glass. The nose is rewardingly fruity with delicate notes of blackcurrant, orange petit fours, country herbs, spice and dried flowers. In the mouth the palate is refined with a moderate structure and a flavorful, slightly juicy flow that lingers at length. A well-focused wine.
17 Jancis Robinson
56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Carmenère, 13% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, 6% Petit Verdot. TA 5.79 g/l, pH 3.45, RS 2.45 g/l. Fruit from their Seña hillside vineyard, 41 km from the Pacific Ocean. Cool temperatures throughout the growing season, harvest delayed by up to two weeks. Hand-picked and sorted by hand. Stainless-steel fermentation, three pumpovers per day. Total maceration time ranged from 14–32 days. Aged for 22 months in French oak barrels (77% new). Quite tight and young on the nose but going in the right direction with good tension. Deep crimson. Very well integrated with only a lifting hint of Carmenère’s greenness. Good freshness and ripeness. A bit sweeter than a typical bordeaux but not uncomfortably sweet. Fine tannins. (JR)
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