Casa Bauzá "Presumido" Carménère 2023

Youthful and intense, with leafy aromas, supple tannins, mint and black cherry flavors and fine-grained tannins. A Carménère blend that shows a vibrant, floral profile. Lots of purple and blue fruit with touches of olives and tapenade. Acid and crunchy fruit, a medium body and an honest, juicy finish.

Organically farmed grapes, hand-harvested and hand selected. Aged 40% in various aged barrels, 30% fudre, 20% flexicube plastic and 10% concrete eggs. Very Bordeaux... you get some cooked green pepper notes and a bit of chocolate, baking spice but it's overall a dark red fruit wine with more freshness and elegance than most Chilean Carménère. Second day, more vegetal on the nose and floral fruity palate, more reminiscent of of good Loire Valley Cab Franc than a Bordeaux.

The winery is located in the Til Til area, in the far north of the Maipo Valley, a warm area where the vines were planted toward the end of the 1990s.