Lapostolle Clos Apalta 2016 750ml - Toast Wines by Taste
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Lapostolle Clos Apalta 2016 750ml
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Lapostolle Clos Apalta 2016

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Category Red Wine
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Origin Chile, Colchagua, Apalta Valley
Brand Lapostolle
Alcohol/vol 14.5%
This wine is brightly colored with hints of purple, and reflects the intense color of carmenere grapes. With typical aromas of ripe fruits and delicate cherry, it is subtly balanced out by spicy touches of black pepper. The Merlot offers up black fruit aromas, like black cherry and blackberry. The Cabernet Sauvignon, in particular from old pre-phylloxera vines, offers up aromas of red fruit and black fruit with some ripe bell pepper and black olive notes. The Carmenère is rich with rounded tannins. Freshness on the palate ensures a beautiful finish of black fruit, smoke, cocoa, leather and tobacco.
James Suckling
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99 Points, James Suckling, jamesssuckling.com: "This is really focused and refined with fantastic dried flowers and dark berries. Dried-lavender and mint undertones. Medium-to full-bodied with refined and polished tannins that are all together and so focused. Really integrated and melted together on the palate. Compact and very linear. Please give this two or three years to come completely together, but it's already breathtaking. Better to drink after 2022." 8/19

August 2019
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A few mature wines still survive from the period that Michel Rolland spent in Chile, including Clos Apalta (a blend of 64% Carménère, 19% Cabernet Sauvignon and 17% Merlot), demonstrating both the effectiveness and richness of the style. Taking an approach that suits the terroir of Apalta in Colchagua, this garnet-hued red offers ripe aromas of jam, camphor and bay leaf that guide the hints of blackberry and an elegant woodiness that encompasses notes of sandalwood and tobacco. A complex wine that reflects its oxidative aging process; after a while, black olives, musk and hazelnuts appear. It is rich on the palate with fine tannins and slightly intense woody notes. A long, mature, open and flavorsome finish.

March 2020

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