Description
The 2017 Casas del Bosque Gran Reserva, from the winery twice named “Chilean Wine Producer of the Year” by the International Wine & Spirits Competition in London, is overflowing with sweet oak spice, licorice, and blackberry, and richly textured with supple tannins.
Maipo Valley is often called the Bordeaux of South America—“the source for the lion’s share of the country’s best wines” in Chile, says Wine Enthusiast. Bordered on the west by the Coastal Range and on the east by the Andes Mountains, Maipo is a cradle of full-bodied and balanced reds characterized by dazzling freshness. Here, Casas del Bosque’s Cabernet vines develop on picture-perfect slopes leading to beautifully integrated Cabernets like this one. James Suckling has likened the Casas del Bosque Gran Reserva to “top Napa Cabernet,” and praises the 2017 for its “wealth of deeply fleshy fruit and fine-grained tannins.” Food & Wine ranked past releases in their Top 10 Wine Values of the Year lineup, and the 2017 is poised to outshine them all after an envelope-pushing vintage in Chile’s Maipo Valley imbued this release with incredible ripeness and depth of flavor.
