2023 Casa Lapostolle Cuvee Alexandre Apalta Vineyard Carmenere, Apalta, Chile (750ml)

WINEMAKER’S NOTES:

Lapostolle Cuve Alexandre Carmenre boasts a complex nose with red and black fruit, spice, herbal, and vanilla aromas. Bright and vivid, it is harvested late in the season, producing a medium structure with juicy, round tannins.

Pair Carmenre with dishes such as rabbit or four-cheese pasta with grated truffles. Lapostolle Cuve Alexandre Carmenre can be cellared for several years.

TASTING NOTES:

This bottling is quite consistent in quality and shows excellent balance. Fruitier than many previous vintages, with fine-grained tannins, juicy fruit and a lengthy finish. Drink now or hold.

– James Suckling, 93 pts.

The 2023 Carmnre Cuve Alexandre Lapostolle is 89% Carmnre, 6% Syrah and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, all from Apalta. This aged for 13 months in second- and third-use 225-liter French oak barrels. It opens with red fruit, plum and ripe blackberry, with soft oak and gentle spice. What stands out is the restrained palateelegant and finely grippy with a subtle cling, delivering the finesse of Chile in a warm year. Delicate pyrazines appear on the finish.

– Vinous, 91 pts.

Containing 6% Syrah and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2023 Cuve Alexandre Carmenre introduces itself with a dark-fruited, plummy nose with a subtle herbal tint and graphite flourishes. The palate is lush yet silky and streamlined in profile, concluding with a long, elegantly structured finish of delineated tannins.

– Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, 90 pts.