Wine Santa Carolina, "Cellar Selection" Carmenere
Reviews of purchase Santa Carolina, "Cellar Selection" Carmenere
Tasting Notes
Wine ruby red color with purple highlights.
Fruity wine is rich notes of dark berries, soft rounded tannins wins and velvety texture.
The wine has a fruity aroma with dominant tones of red and black berries.
Wine perfectly complement the dishes of chicken and pork, pasta and cheese.
Interesting Facts
"Cellar Selection" Cabernet Sauvignon - this is a great fruity wine from vineyards in the Central Valley of Chile sunlight. Grapes grown in the Rapel Valley - an area with a variety of soils and a favorable climate.
The history of the winery Santa Carolina began in 1875, when the rich visionary entrepreneur Luis Pereira Kotapos decided to take part in the ambitious project of winemaking in South America and bought land in Chile, in Santiago. The name of the winery was born in the name of his beloved wife of Louis - Carolina Iñiguez Vicuña. Luis Pereira invited to Chile a group of three French experts led by the famous enologist Germain Bachelet, who took the best land for vines Chile noble grape varieties from the Bordeaux region - Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay. Together with their families, they settled in Chile and began to work on the plantations and the new winery. With the French architect Emile Doyere was contracted to design and construction of the main warehouse of the winery, which should provide optimum conditions for storing wine in oak barrels in order to ensure high standards of care. The result of this collaboration was so incredible that the warehouse in 1973 was declared a national monument and has remained unchanged and valid to this day. Warehouse was built using brick technology-based mortar, a technique that is used by modern masters.
Today things have changed, the company changed its dislocation Santa Carolina and expanded the area of their vineyards to 650 hectares. They are located in prime locations Valley Maipo, Casablanca, Rapel and Maule. Widened and graded composition, today the farm grown varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Syrah, Malbec, Carmenere, Semillon and others. One thing remains unchanged - the tradition, prestige and quality of the wines of Santa Carolina, has been for over a hundred years supporting his fame and present in the most important markets worldwide. Total production is 30 million liters of wine per year.