2018 Concha Y Toro, Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon, Maipo Valley 6x75cl

Concha Y Toro

Case Format: 75cl

Max score: 96

Drink To: 2022-2035

The wine has a great expression of fruit with notes of freshness and excellent ripeness of tannins. It is full bodied, dark fruits and mocha taste. The single vineyard Don Melchor originates from 114 hectares at Puente Alto in the Alto Maipo Valley. At the foot of the Andes Mountains, this is the finest terroir for cultivating Cabernet Sauvignon in Chile. In 1984 Eduardo Guilisasti Tagle's vision for the vineyard compelled him to send samples of wine for eminent enologists to taste in Bordeaux. Jacques Boissenot's enthusiasm was immediate and he has been involved in the making of every vintage since.
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CRITIC REVIEWS

96
Joaquín Hidalgo

The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Don Melchor is a combination of a proven style - the blend also includes 5% Cabernet Franc, 3% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot - and a particularly good harvest in the Puente Alto region in Maipo. Made by Enrique Tirado and aged for 15 months in French barrels, it is garnet red in the glass, with a very complex expression that unfolds in layers, beginning with black currant and sour cherry notes, followed by mint, cedar and pepper and a faint whiff of red pepper. Juicy in the mouth with fine-grained tannins and a concentration that centers the wine, channeling and stretching out the fruity backdrop, this is an unusually harmonious and delicious Bordeaux blend.

95
Luis Gutiérrez

I tasted two vintages of the top Cabernet Sauvignon, and even if the two years were quite different, the wines showed very good regularity. My preference was for the 2018 Don Melchor, from a cooler and rainier vintage that produced a very complete and balanced wine with the aid of 5% Cabernet Franc, 3% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot. It has power and finesse, integrated 14% alcohol and a classical profile with the ingredients to develop nicely in bottle. It's tasty and has polished tannins. 156,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in December 2019 and early January 2020.

18+
JancisRobinson.com

Winemaker Enrique Tirado, who lives and breathes Don Melchor, is very enthusiastic about this vintage, a stellar one for Chile. Deep crimson although I can see the bottom of the glass! Freshness with ripe-but-not-sweet fruit and some hint of stoniness on the quite strongly aromatic nose. Then it is sweeter on the palate than it had seemed on the nose. Intense cassis, unsweetened chocolate, and then a fresh finish with a nice, dry mineral finish. Really quite appetising. Beautifully polished tannins which, amazingly, make the wine delicious to drink already. The undertow and clean peacock's tail finish is impressive. Despite its current approachability, on the basis of this vertical tasting I forecast a pretty impressively long life.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COUNTRY

Chile

REGION

Central Valley

SUB REGION

Maipo Valley

VINTAGE

2018

COLOUR

Red

CASE FORMAT

6x75cl

AVAILABILITY

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MAX CRITIC SCORE

96

DRINK TO

2022-2035

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