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Cabernet Sauvignon Gran Reserva

Cabernet Sauvigon grapevines are ungrafted and conducted as espaliers. They are 12 years old and handled with a vegetative restriction concept, in favour of the fruit production in a microclimate characterized by a great day and night thermal difference (69º F) and high radiation, achieving low yielding (grapes Kg/plant) in order to concentrate components: scents, colour, and phenols, thus getting more structured and bodied wines.

The harvest begins in the middle of April when perfect sugar, scents and tannins ripeness is attained. Grape is crushed and stemmed in the winery, adding some 2 mg/l of sulphur dioxide in the reception hopper. Musts and marcs are poured into 5.000 l stainless steel casks, where it takes place a 5 days cold maceration at 50º F, before fermentation, to extract scents and colour. Then, musts are inoculated with selected yeasts to ferment at 82 - 88º F for a 7 to 10 days period. 4 daily 1 minute/metric ton toppings are performed to extract all of the colour and tannins from the grapes.

Then wines are poured into first use French oak casks, where malolactic fermentation takes place. Those wines stay in the casks for about 10 months. In that period they gain in wood and structure and they micro oxygenate. The vineyard enologist tastes them daily to define optimal time of removal and end of the cask aging period. (About 10 months). Then, wine is bottled in the same winery and rests for about 4 to 6 months before marketing.

Technical Notes
Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva

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Country	Chile
City	Valle del Maipo
Variety	Cabernet Sauvignon 100%
Rendimiento/Há	8.000 Kg/ Ha
Wine Analysis
Grado Alcohólico	13,5 G.L
Acides Total (Ac. Tartático) (g/l)	4,9
pH	3,7
Sulfuroso Libre	28
Sulfuroso Total	60
Azúcar Residual	2,0

Tries Notes
Visual analysis	Deep red-ruby color.
Olfactory analysis	You exceed him its complex mixtures of fragrances. Red fruits, berries, dry plums and cassis with a smooth menthol they are criss-crossed with vanillas, tobacco, coffee and notes tostadas of the wood.
Taste analysis	In mouth is a wine of great volume and elegance. Round, smooth tannins and candies offer texture and politeness. Long end spiced and pleasant.
Final Sensation	Silky

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