Montes Alpha Special Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon - Montes

With the Montes Montes Alpha Special Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon comes a first-class red wine in the wine glass. Here it offers a wonderfully dense, crimson color. After the first swirl, this red wine reveals a high viscosity, which is evident in clear church windows at the edge of the glass. This single varietal Chilean wine reveals wonderfully expressive notes of black currants, blueberries, black cherries and mulberries in the glass. These are joined by hints of dark chocolate, cinnamon and black tea.

The Montes Montes Alpha Special Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon presents itself to the wine connoisseur wonderfully dry. This red wine is never coarse or meager, as one might expect from a premium and site wine segment. This dense and velvety red wine presents itself on the palate full of pressure and facets. The fruit acidity of the Montes Alpha Special Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon is strikingly restrained and thus makes this wine wonderfully smooth. The finish of this youthful red wine from the wine-growing region Valle Central, more precisely from Valle de Rapel, finally impresses with considerable reverberation. The finish is also accompanied by mineral hints of the soils dominated by granite and clay.

Vinification of the Montes Montes Alpha Special Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon

This powerful red wine from Chile is made from the Cabernet Sauvignon grape variety. In the Valle Central, the vines that produce the grapes for this wine grow on soils of granite and clay. Obviously, the Montes Alpha Special Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon is also determined by climate and viticultural style Valle de Rapel. This Chilean can literally be called an Old World wine, which presents itself exceptionally impressive. When the perfect physiological ripeness is ensured, the grapes for the Montes Alpha Special Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon are harvested exclusively by hand, without the help of coarse and less selective machines. After the hand harvest, the grapes quickly reach the winery. Here they are selected and carefully broken up. Fermentation then takes place in stainless steel tanks and small wood at controlled temperatures. Fermentation is followed by aging for 16 months in American barrels.

Food recommendation for the Montes Alpha Special Cuvée Cabernet Sauvignon from Montes

This Chilean is best enjoyed tempered at 15 - 18°C. It is perfect as an accompanying wine to spaghetti with caper tomato sauce, spicy curry with lamb or cod with cucumber mustard vegetables.

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