Tarapaca Rosé Cabernet Sauvignon & Syrah (2021)

Tarapaca Rosé Cabernet Sauvignon & Syrah

Tarapaca rose is a wine with a taste and aroma of ripe blackcurrants and fresh summer.

Scent: Filled with ripe blackcurrants and fresh summer.
Taste: Overwhelming, very elegant and yet with a good depth and fullness. Here are both blackcurrants and fresh grapes. With this wine in the glass, you already want the next glass.
Server for: Light meat, pasta dishes, fatty fish and Asian food. You can also use it as an excellent welcome drink!
Serving temperature: 8-10ºC.

The wine:

Tarapaca rose is harvested from over 10-year-old vines that cover an area of 120 ha, where the soil is calcareous. The fields are 480 meters above sea level. In order to achieve the optimal wine as well as a uniform quality and taste from year to year, the winemakers vary the grape composition slightly each year. The starting point is always Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah as the two main grapes, and depending on the year's harvest, a smaller amount of other grapes is added, such as Mourvedre, Petit Verdot and Sauvignon Blanc.

The grapes are harvested at the end of March. Before fermentation begins, the must lies together with the grape skins for approx. 10 hours to get the most character from the grapes. The result doesn't fail either: Beautiful dark color and a scent of classic Cabernet Sauvignon. Fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks at a low, controlled temperature in order to preserve the great fruit richness of the grapes in the final wine.

The wine house:

Viña Tarapacá er et af de ældste vinerier i Chile, de plantede deres første marker tilbage i 1874 i bunden af Maipo Valley. Her var de med til at starte Chiles vinindustri. I 1992 blev vinhuset opkøbt af Fosfores Group. Planen var at skabe vine på højt niveau tilpasset den stigende forbruger interesse. Det første man gjorde var at opkøbe “El Rosario de Naltagua”, en stor gård centralt beliggende i Maipo Valley. Her opbyggede man faciliteter med fuld kontrol over hele produktionsprocessen.

Denne vingård ligger i dag i et smørhul omgivet af de smukkeste vinmarker. Man har i dag tilplantet hele 850 hektar. Mikroklimaet er helt unikt. Dels er der mulighed for at vande markerne med smeltevandet fra Andes-bjergene, og samtidig få den kølige brise fra kysten. Dette er med til at skabe grobund for sunde modne druer med god balance mellem syre og sødme.