Carmin de Peumo Carménère (limited)

Romazini: 4/5 Stars

The Chilean Carménère Icon is the new landmark CarMönère like no other. Dark and dense ink, extraordinary structure, powerfull and extremely rare.
Due to the restricted supply, we individually allocate the bottles.

The Winespectator: 92/100 Points

This ripe red boasts juicy but focused crushed blackberry, plum and black currant fruit, woven with alluring toasty vanilla, espresso and black licorice notes. The lengthy, pure finish has a nice underlying minerality. Drink now through 2012.

Robert Parker: 97/100 Points

Vintage 2005: The Carmin de Peumo is the winery flagship and a candidate for Chile's finest wine. The 2005 Carmin de Peumo Carmenere (I reviewed the 2003 in Issue 171, there was no 2004 produced) is a blend of the best parcels in the Peumo Vineyard. It spent 20 months in French oak and was bottled without fining or filtration. Purple/black in color, this profound effort gives up an amazing aromatic array of wood smoke, scorched earth, leather, espresso, blueberry compote, and blackberry liqueur. This leads to an opulent, extraordinarily rich, nearly over the top, sumptuous wine with deeply hidden structure, exceptional balance, and which manages to remain light on its feet despite its immense power. It can be enjoyed now but will be so much better in 5-7 years. It is a tour de force!

The Winemaker

Dark and deep red with violet hues. Very elegant nose. Complex, a great deal of black fruit; plums and blackberries with hints of gooseberries and tobacco. Well-structured palate, filling, bitter chocolate, sweet tannins, vigorous and concentrated. Thick with an oily texture, its rich fruity base ends in a long finish.