Casa Lapostolle: Clos Apalta 2020

Casa Lapostolle: Clos Apalta 2020

Trækasse

Til vinbonden

98–100
100
2
Carmenere 64%, Cabernet Sauvignon 19%, Merlot 15%, Petit Verdot 2%
5
rød, tør
15,0% Vol.
Modenhed til at drikke: 2027–2050
Pakket ind i: 6 OHK
9
silkeblød og aromatisk
rig på tanniner
voluminøs og kraftfuld
3
Lobenberg: 98–100/100
Suckling: 99/100
Decanter: 97/20
Colin Hay: 97/100
Jeb Dunnuck: 97/100
Galloni: 96/100
Jane Anson: 96/100
6
Chile, Colchagua
7
Allergener: Sulfitter,
lobenberg

Heiner Lobenberg om:
Clos Apalta 2020

98–100
/100

Årets blend består af 64 procent Carmenere, 19 procent Cabernet Sauvignon, 15 procent Merlot og 2 procent Petit Verdot. En utrolig forførende aroma strømmer ud af glasset! Hammer! Fersken, honningmelon og kirsebær i alle former og farver. Blomsteragtige violaromaer og endda lidt lavendel og potpourri svæver over, sammen med det næsten delikate krydderi. Muskatnød, nelliker og et strejf af vanilje, og med lidt tid i glasset tilføjes duftende læder. I munden er vinens tæthed helt overvældende! For alt er simpelthen tæt og koncentreret: frugt, tanniner og friskhed. Denne åbenlyse brombær- og sortkirsebærkomponent med mørk lakrids, mørk chokolade og delikate røgede aromaer slår tonen an. Men så kommer vinens typiske finesse og friskhed i spil. Intet er tungt, og alt er veldefineret og på rette sted, inklusive de saftige og fløjlsagtige runde tanniner. Et mesterværk fra Chile! Carmenere gør vinen unik. Den er næsten billig i sit konkurrenceområde. Moderne, store ting. 98-100/100

99
/100

Suckling om: Clos Apalta

A really refined, expressive and layered Clos Apalta with fine olives, incense, cigar box, cocoa powder, Spanish chocolate, pencil shavings, graphite and fine spices. Juicy, bright and full-bodied palate with a fine saline, savory twist. Very long and juicy. 64% carmenere, 19% cabernet sauvignon, 15% merlot and 2% petit verdot. Real finesse from 2020. Drink from 2024. 99/100

97
/20

Decanter om: Clos Apalta

A great effort in the hot and dry 2020, COVID-19 vintage with the earliest harvest ever. The grand vin shows power, richness and tons of fruit but retains a sense of charisma and direction that is so compelling. Bright, forward, sleek and silky, tannins enrobe the palate creating a cushion for the ripe blackcurrants and blueberries, bright acidity and underlying spice to meld together. A large percentage of Carmenere at 64% gives the fragrance and backbone while 19% Cabernet Sauvignon adds texture and depth, 13% Merlot bringing freshness and acidity and 2% Petit Verdot adding spice, colour and richness. Only just beginning to really express itself with liquorice, eucalyptus, figs, plums and a salty-wet stone minerality that comes in on the finish. Despite the intensity, this is layered and well sculpted with tons of pleasure to be had with a few more years ageing. Ageing 27 months in 225L French oak barrels, 85% new, 15% two years old. 3.7pH. Winemaker and viticulturist Andrea Leon kept more leaf coverage, a thicker and higher trellis and natural cover crops during the vintage to moderate the high temperatures. Bottles for this, and the second wine, are now made in Chile as of this vintage and have reduced in weight by 10% in a bid to increase sustainability. Clos Apalta now also featuring its name embossed in the glass at the bottom of the bottle. 97/100

Smagsnotat
97
/100

Colin Hay om: Clos Apalta

Gosh, this is lovely. There are plenty of very floral wines amongst this September’s releases on la place, but this is perhaps the most intensely floral aromatically of them all. Lily and iris, violet and a touch of rosemary and lavender, saffron and pollen grains too, beeswax, and copious black berry and stone fruit. There’s a little wood smoke too and a touch of Szechuan pepper. On the palate this is lithe and limpid, energetic and dynamic and rather more saline in its minerality than one expects from the nose, with plenty of salty liquorice. The tannins are of gossamer, though they build in the mouth, slowly shaping and sculpting the highly contoured, richly-detailed mid-palate. This is really excellent.97/100

97
/100

Jeb Dunnuck om: Clos Apalta

The flagship 2020 Clos Apalta is based on 64% Carménère, 19% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, and 2% Petit Verdot and it was aged for 27 months in 85% new barrels. It takes the second wine and turns the dial up, offering a dense purple hue as well as gorgeous aromatics of red and black plums, smoked tobacco, fresh flowers, and spicy oak. Medium to full-bodied on the palate, it has beautiful depth and concentration, yet it stays light on its feet, has a beautiful sense of freshness, and ultra-fine, polished tannins. It's a stunningly good bottle of wine that offers pleasure today yet will benefit from 3-4 years of bottle age, and I would be shocked if it wasn't still drinking fabulously well at age 20.

96
/100

Galloni om: Clos Apalta

The 2020 Blend Clos Apalta is 64% Carménère, 19% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, and 2% Petit Verdot from Apalta, Colchagua. It was aged for 27 months in 85% new barrels. Rich purple in hue. The clearly defined, ripe, complex nose has a leafy character underlined by fruit such as prune and blueberry jam along with hints of pepper, tobacco and rosemary, all packaged in a cedar cigar box. Creamy and broad in the mouth with good volume. The firm flow is channeled by appreciable structure in which polished tannins set the tone for an expansive, indulgent profile. A genuine Michel Rolland interpretation of a year with a rapid ripening season. 96/100

96
/100

Jane Anson om: Clos Apalta

Enticing layers of tobacco, cocoa bean, redcurrant, blackberry and pomegranate. There are good acidities also to support the spicy core of toasted oak, cloves, liqourice, cigar box, Provence herbs, and soft, supple tannins. Small berries in this hot vintage (around two weeks ahead of average throughout the growing season) mean clear concentration and a lot of body, and the bell pepper and eucalyptus notes of this Carmanère-dominant wine are extremely welcome. Harvest finished on March 6, the earliest on record. Ageing in a mix of new and second-use barrels, with a long light toasting (this ageing changed as of the 2017 vintage, bringing down levels of new oak to 85%), 3.71ph, unfiltered and unfined. There has been a change to the bottles also, lowering their weight and ensuring they are produced in Chile itself. 96/100

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Casa Lapostolle

På relativt kort tid er Casa Lapostolle blevet et af Chiles vinikoner. Det unikke terroir bliver nu omhyggeligt dyrket økologisk af den syvende generation.

Clos Apalta 2020