Casa Lapostolle - Borobo 2009 75cl Bottle

Product Description

This unique blend offers a complex, intense & elegant nose with expressive notes of red & black fruit, spices & tobacco. Balanced, supple mid-palate with some more spices & red fruit, followed by a long finish. Lapostolle is owned by the Marnier-Lapostolle family (of Grand Marnier fame), & since the winery's foundation in 1994 has pursued an uncompromising approach to quality. Their objective is simple as it is ambitious: to create world-class wines using French expertise & the superb terroir of Chile. The five varieties in Borobo are h&-harvested from three of Casa Lapostolle's premium sites: in Apalta (Cabernet, Petit Verdot & Carmenere), Casablanca (Pinot Noir) & Cachapoal Valley (Syrah). All of the grapes were h&-destemmed. The must was wild fermented in small French oak casks for ten to fifteen days at less than 28&176;C, followed by post-fermentation skin contact lastgin from just a couple of days in the case of the Pinot Noir to three weeks for the Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine was then racked to barrels to undergo malolactic fermentation, & aged for twenty-four months in 100% new French oak barrels before bottling unfined & unfiltered. 30% Cabernet Sauvignon; 25% Syrah; 20% Carmenere; 15% Pinot Noir & 10% Merlot.