Wine TerraMater, "Paso Del Sol" Merlot, 2012
Tasting Notes
Wine beautiful garnet-red color.
Taste wine has medium body, good balance and a long fruity finish.
The bouquet of wine felt aromas of ripe red fruits, spices, chocolate and black pepper.
Wine is an aperitif, it is recommended in combination with spicy-spicy dishes of poultry and meat, served with grilled and stewed meat, pasta and cheese.
Interesting Facts
Wine "Paso del Sol" Merlot is made from Merlot grapes harvested from the vineyards of El Carmen and Peteroa. Caring about the quality of the grapes in a warm and dry climate, viticulturists company "TerraMater" strictly control modes vineyard irrigation and watering the vines. While collecting berries are carefully selected according to the degree of tannin maturity. After maceration wine undergoes malolactic fermentation, which lasts 8 days at carefully observed temperature 25-28 ° C. Filtering is performed before bottling.
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, continued docheri.Kompaniya 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!
