Viña Errázuriz - Don Maximiano Founder's Reserve Aconcagua Valley 2017 (750ml)

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Producer	Viña Errázuriz
Country	Chile
Varietal	Red Blend
Vintage	2017
Sku	10017739
Size	750ml

Beautiful aromas of currants, coffee and dried flowers. Full body, round and juicy tannins with berry, chocolate and light vanilla undertones. Delicious finish. Better after 2022, but already delicious.

I like the austerity of the 2017 Don Maximiano Founder's Reserve—it's more reserved than the 2016, more discrete and less aromatic, with a lot of power on the palate. 2017 is a structured vintage, and the challenge was to find elegance, freshness and balance, as the weather was warm and dry. It's a blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Malbec, 8% Carmenere, 7% Petit Verdot and 6% Cabernet Franc—a classical Chilean Bordeaux blend—with notes of black fruit, cassis and blackberry, serious and with better-integrated oak. They are very careful with the use of oak, using barrels that mark the wine less, especially in warm vintages, and using fewer new barrels. The wine has structure and tannin but also has the juiciness to balance it all. There are 66,662 bottles of this.

An Aconcagua blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Malbec, 8% Carménère, 7% Petit Verdot and 6% Cabernet Franc that spent 22 months in French oak, 22% of it new. 14% alcohol. The ripe nose contains blackberry, blueberry and blackcurrant jam, a touch of oak and cocoa. Indulgent in the mouth with firm, juicy tannins. A serious wine.

- Joaquín Hidalgo

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