Wine Tarapaca, Rose
Reviews of purchase Tarapaca, Rose
Tasting Notes
Wine beautiful pink color with purple hues.
The wine has a deep, balanced taste with refreshing acidity and bright fruit notes and a pleasant aftertaste.
Rich, full, pronounced aroma reveals notes of ripe red fruits, strawberry and blackcurrant.
Wine will be a good pair with seafood, white meat, fish, light dishes, risotto, Asian dishes and cheeses. An excellent aperitif.
Interesting Facts
For wine harvest harvested from old vines (10 years or more), native to the Maipo Valley, an area of over 120 hectares. The vineyards are located at an altitude of 480 meters above sea level. Meltwater from the Andes well-irrigated land, and the fresh sea breeze softens the summer heat. The soils are predominantly chalky. These unique conditions promote the growth of healthy, ripe grapes, with an excellent balance of sweetness and acidity. To achieve the perfect aroma and flavor characteristics of high quality wine, its blend from one year to partially change. But the starting point is always the two grape varieties - Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah, which, depending on the crop are present to a greater or lesser extent. In addition, small amounts in the composition also includes Mourvedre, Petit Verdot and Sauvignon Blanc. Fully ripe grapes are harvested in late March. Wort passes 10-hour cold maceration to extract a beautiful pink color and fresh flavor. Pressing step begins after the fermentation of wine in stainless steel at low temperatures to preserve flavor and richness of flavor in the final product. As a result, the wine becomes full, elegant flavor and aroma are present in fresh notes of ripe fruit.
Tarapaca - one of the most important wineries in Chile and one of the main representatives of the New World wineries. The winery was founded in 1874 in the Maipo Valley, at the foot of the Andes. This blessed place, according to the magazine Decanter, "is fast becoming one of the most famous regions of Chile with a cool climate and wines made from crops with natural low-yielding vineyards." In Tarapaca necessarily been selecting the best grapes, which are chosen the right terroir that, along with a careful vinification results in a high quality, balanced and complex wine. The task of the winery - "to produce high quality wine with excellent balance and taste." In the year of Tarapaca produces more than 13 million liters of wine. The average age of the vines economy is 12-15 years. After more than 100 years of producing great wines in the domestic market in 1992 Tarapacá began to export wine, winning major international markets.
Now the winery is part of Tarapacá Wine Group of Companies VSPT, which also includes other wineries in Argentina and Chile. VSPT - the first company in the local market and the second export of wines from Chile.