2008 De Martino, Alto los Toros, Single Vineyard Syrah, Elqui Valley

2008 De Martino, Alto los Toros, Single Vineyard Syrah, Elqui Valley

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2008 De Martino, Alto los Toros, Single Vineyard Syrah, Elqui Valley

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Syrah in Chile has found its homestead in the northern Elqui Valley, 500 miles to the north of Santiago. This vineyard is the highest in Chile, terraced at an extraordinary 1950 metres, in the ( upper) foothills of the Andes. On a 45 degree slope, the vineyard is trellised in a system known as ‘Parron Elquino’ , which allows a little protection from the 300 + days of sunlight. The wine has been aged for 18 months in French oak and includes a small percentage of Petit Verdot. An inky colour and immediately attractive nose of violets , blackberry and graphite do not flatter to deceive. The palate is rich and ripe, but finely structured with classic Syrah purity, balancing acidity and a pleasingly assertive finish.
Simon Field MW, BBR Wine Buyer

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Wine Advocate92/100
The 2008 Syrah Single Vineyard Alto Los Toros contains 15% Petit Verdot in its makeup. It is sourced from an incredibly steep vineyard in the remote region of Elqui reminiscent of the L’Espectacle Vineyard in Montsant, Spain. Notions of licorice, game, espresso, asphalt, blackberry, and blueberry lead to a dense, ripe, exceptionally concentrated wine that will benefit from another 3-4 years of cellaring. Drink this promising offering from 2015 to 2023 if not longer.
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About this WINE

De Martino

De Martino

De Martino is one of the most progressive and exciting names on the Chilean wine scene, deservedly named Chilean Winery of the year in 2011. Through a network of intellectual partnerships and vineyard acquisition, it has quickly built up a reputation for organic viticulture of the highest quality, farming from over 350 different vineyards.

The corporate vision focuses on sustainability, terroir, and, by logical extension, excellence. By concentrating on the very best sites for the varieties in question, be they in Limari, Elqui or Maipo, and by the development of a world class winemaking team, De Martino now sits at the very top of the Chilean vinous hierarchy.

The Alto Piedras vineyards make up 5 hectares of the sub-Denominacion of the Isla de Maipo, a de facto island as the vines are surrounded by two branches of the Maipo River. Two other self-evident truths are located in the nomenclature; firstly that the terrain is rocky, volcanic gravel to be precise and secondly that the vines are quite high up. Chile’s indigenous grape, Carmenère, is here aged for 18 months in new French oak.

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Syrah/Shiraz

Syrah/Shiraz

A noble black grape variety grown particularly in the Northern Rhône where it produces the great red wines of Hermitage, Cote Rôtie and Cornas, and in Australia where it produces wines of startling depth and intensity. Reasonably low yields are a crucial factor for quality as is picking at optimum ripeness. Its heartland, Hermitage and Côte Rôtie, consists of 270 hectares of steeply terraced vineyards producing wines that brim with pepper, spices, tar and black treacle when young. After 5-10 years they become smooth and velvety with pronounced fruit characteristics of damsons, raspberries, blackcurrants and loganberries.

It is now grown extensively in the Southern Rhône where it is blended with Grenache and Mourvèdre to produce the great red wines of Châteauneuf du Pape and Gigondas amongst others. Its spiritual home in Australia is the Barossa Valley, where there are plantings dating as far back as 1860. Australian Shiraz tends to be sweeter than its Northern Rhône counterpart and the best examples are redolent of new leather, dark chocolate, liquorice, and prunes and display a blackcurrant lusciousness.

South African producers such as Eben Sadie are now producing world- class Shiraz wines that represent astonishing value for money.

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