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Altaïr Sideral Red (Rapel Valley)

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carne assada · churrasco · guisado de carne · queijos curados

200990 pts

After a few years when Altaïr's wines strayed toward being too herbal and rustic, this is cleaner and easier to like. It's still showing the winery's typical herbal-olive aromas and flavors, but it's smooth in the mouth, with deep flavors of blackberry, cassis, licorice and coco…
200690 pts

Olive, herb and earth aromas vie with foresty fruit aromas, while the palate is rough and ready, with rugged tannins and full flavors of baked fruit, caramel, herbs and chocolate. A catchy blended wine with a sweet finish and tons of flavor. Cabernet is the main player here; dri…
200590 pts

The 2005 vintage of this Cabernet-Carmenère blend is dark as night, thick as a side of beef, and sweet like a dessert. Licorice, molasses, graphite and blackberry share the unctuous nose, while the palate is tannic, rich and tastes like baked black fruits, coffee and chocolate p…
200491 pts

All this Cab blend needs is time in the glass and it'll show floral, alluring aromas and then big raspberry and plum flavors. It starts quietly and then pounds through with saturated fruit, chocolate and firm tannins.