Purple Angel Colchagua Valley
VINTAGE
2020
COUNTRY
Chile
TABLE #
5141
REGION
Colchagua Valley
93
Opens with an elegant array of fresh raspberry, pink peppercorn and river mint flavors before turning broad. Vanilla bean and cassis notes cling to a richly textured blackberry core that lingers around fine tannins, echoing back to the core flavors and adding notes of dark chocolate. Carmenère and Petit Verdot. Drink now through 2034. 2,325 cases imported.
Purple Angel comes from Montes’ Finca Apalta Estate vineyard with some additions from their Marchigüe Estate vineyard. These two unique vineyards feature granite-rich soils in differing degrees of decomposition. The granitic soil of both vineyards boast incredible diversity, varied in the clay content, depth, and amount of organic matter, with stones ranging from fluvial to glacial origins. Some zones are influenced by the Tinguiririca River while others are marked by mudslides and the detachment of material from high above in the mountain chain that delimits the valley. One of Chile’s most celebrated wines, Purple Angel’s Carmenère is planted in deep, rich soils, with moderate water retention, while the Petit Verdot comes from Marchigüe’s wind-swept slopes.
92% Carmenère, 8% Petit Verdot
70% of this wine was aged for 18 months in first-use French oak barrels, and 30% aged in second- and third-use use barrels
A dry season, with yields reduced 15–20%, intensified the wines. Summer’s high temperatures accelerated the ripening process and meant harvest was a month earlier in some cases. The low fruit set resulted in bunches at with small grapes, positively affecting the concentration of aromas, flavors, and
color in red grapes, giving very high quality for wines.
Deep brick-red in colour, typical of the Carmenère variety, the aromas are intense, with ripe blackberry, plum, and blueberry. On the palate, black and blue fruit is completmented by sweet spice, pink pepper, coffee, and tobacco. The palate is balanced and silky, with a caramel-like body and very long
finish.
Highly recommended with red meats, lamb chops with rosemary, pork ribs, and cannelloni.
