Perez Cruz rarely fumbles preferring to excel. This wine is a blend of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Petit Verdot and 4% Cabernet Franc. It has spent 14 months in first, second and third fill French oak barrels.
Aroma: Blueberry attack. Black cherry, mint with a hint of dark chocolate.
Palate: Youngish wine that needs more time to assert its excellence. You might think low tannins but wait a minute and experience creeping tannins that level out at the moderate level. Stiff fruit for the most part hiding temporarily in an austere structure. But give it more time in the bottle and black fruit is going to bust out and dance joyously in the oral cavity discotheque.
Personality: I am at the present transient moment big and bold and lacking in finesse but as a minimum decant me one hour prior to serving if you can’t wait until I bust through my pubescent state into maturity after some time in the bottle.
Food Match: Pesto coated leg of lamb.
Cellarbility: The sails will begin unfurling in 2026 and sail very nicely into 2030.
Price: $23 CDN (Ontario).
RKS 2024 Wine Rating: 92/100. Timatkin.com 2023 Chile Special Report 94.
(Perez Cruz Piedra Seca 2021, D.O. Maipo Andes, Perez Cruz, Huelquén-Paine, Chile, 750 mL, 14.5%).
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