Wine TerraMater, "Paso Del Sol" Carmenere, 2011
Tasting Notes
Wine of intense red color with purple highlights.
The wine has a soft, rich taste with velvety tannins and a long finish.
The aroma of the wine reveals notes of ripe black fruit, cocoa and tobacco nuances.
The wine is perfect for grilled meats, pizza, beef stew and game.
Interesting Facts
Wine "Paso del Sol" Carmenere - monosepazhnoe made from grapes harvested from vineyards Kaperana, El Carmen and San George in the Central Valley. Winegrowers are closely monitoring the irrigation in the area and control the mode of irrigation and water the vines to avoid both droughts and floods that occur in the field. While collecting berries are carefully selected by the degree of maturity of tannin, which is typical for red grapes. After two days of maceration cold way, the wine passes malolactic fermentation for 8 days at carefully observed temperature 25-28 degrees. British wine critic Tim Atkin from the magazine Observer Sunday Magazine wrote that: "Paso del Sol Carmenere - at the moment, no doubt, the best red wine in the UK in terms of price and quality." Now, this wine can appreciate and Russian buyers!
In 1996, three older sisters Canepa - Gilda, Edda and Antonieta - realize their dream by opening a new winery TerraMater. A passion for wine production has been part of their lives, because the family Canepa in winemaking since the 1930's. Once their father emigrated from Italy to Chile and discover that the fertile soils of the Chilean viticulture engage easily and efficiently acquired vineyards. Today his business, but under his own name, his daughter continued.
Company TerraMater born on exceptional grounds, on which there are numerous vineyards, full of noble varieties. TerraMater owns 500 hectares of land, washed with clean water with the Andean mountains. Here grow old, well-rooted vines, whose age ranges from 40 to 60 years, as well as the wonderful olive groves that produce the highest quality olive oil and apple orchards. Various structures, textures and depth of soil for growing a variety of grapes and produce wines of different character and style. Sisters Vineyards Canepa rich famous varieties as Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carmenere, Sangiovese, Shiraz, Pinot Blanc, Petit Verdot and many others. One of the main directions of the company is to provide new and attractive flavors by blending wines from grapes with different characteristics. As the company said winemaker TerraMater Christian Vallejo: "TerraMater - this wine for any occasion and for all cases."
Huge investments in newly built new factory gave us TerraMater advantage over many of its competitors. Low cost, easy and high quality wines TerraMater often bring victory in international competitions!