Carmenère Reserva Curico Valley 2023 – Viña Echeverría

The grapes to produce Carmenère Reserva Curico Viña Echeverría were fermented in 25,000 and 15,000 litre stainless steel tanks for a period of eight days. The Carmenère Reserva Curico Valley Viña Echeverría fermentation took place with selected yeasts at controlled temperatures of 24 to 27°C, through to dryness. An extended maceration took place for an additional three to five days in order to extract the desired level of colour and flavours. 100% of the wine underwent malolactic fermentation, followed by four to five months in seasoned French oak barrels imparting complexity.

The vineyard is located in Molina in the Curico Valley at an altitude of 243 metres. It is situated on the 35th parallel south, between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Intense sunshine is tempered by cooling sea breezes, allowing the grapes to achieve outstanding fruit aromas and exceptional colour concentration. The warm dry days and cold nights encourage a long growing season, which is ideally suited to produce healthy vines and grapes. Working with a model of micro viticulture, each plot, of no more than half a hectare, is identified according to its terroir and microclimate and planted accordingly. Grapes are cultivated using specific pruning methods, irrigation, canopy management and harvesting, which results in grapesof optimum quality and flavour. The fertile soils are alluvial in origin, with clay loam and stone at 80cm.

Viña Echeverria is a family-run estate winery, owned and managed by the Echeverría family. Established in 1930, but with an agricultural heritage going back to the 1700s, Viña Echeverría is as much today, as always, driven by a shared passion for winemaking and an uncompromising search for excellence. Viña Echeverría combines nearly a century of viticulture and winemaking experience with a modern state-of-the-art winery, to produce a range of over 20 quality wines from nine different grape varieties. It has recently been awarded its Sustainable Winery status by Wines of Chile, as well as its ISO9000 certification.