In honor of the Chilean miners, we are offering up this week reviews of some of Chile’s wines. If you have any reviews you’d like to offer, please submit them to winereview@palatepress.com
This wine has a lovely silken mouth-feel. The aroma on the nose is chocolate-covered peppered bacon. It opens with deep mulberry, sweetening to blueberry on the mid-palate, all with the chocolate-bacon hovering in the background. Tannins are sweet. Drink with flank steak.
WHO: Emiliana
WHAT: Red Blend
WHERE: Central Valley, Colchagua Valley, Chile,
WHEN: 2007
HOW MUCH: $29 (Media sample)