Marqués de Casa Concha Carmenere 2021

Spicy nose with plenty of cumin and fennel. A mixture of red and black fruit with dark olives. Juicy and flavorful with a medium-bodied palate and long, silky tannins. Drink now.

The 2021 Marques de Casa Concha Carmenere contains 6% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2.5% Merlot and was sourced from the classical zone for the grapes—Peumo in Cachapoal. They picked the grapes on normal dates (20th of May). It fermented in stainless steel with selected yeasts and matured in French oak barrels, 29% of them new, although 4% of the volume was in 5,000-liter Italian foudres for 12 months. It has 14% alcohol and kept a moderate pH of 3.6. The élevage was shorter and they reduced the new oak. The characteristic of this range is that the wines are textbook examples of the varieties and places and are quite homogeneous from vintage to vintage, here showing the freshness of the vintage, which is more delicate and with good tension. 240,000 bottles produced. It was bottled between June 2022 and February 2023.