Retour Almaviva - Puento Alto - Red - 2023
COUNTRY/REGION: Chile
DESIGNATION: Puento Alto
COLOR: Red
VINTAGE: 2023
GRAPE VARIETY: 74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Carménère, 5% Cabernet Franc & 5% Petit Verdot
ALCOHOL: 15 vol.
CONTENT: 75 cl
The tasting
Color Deep ruby red.
Nose A full and complex nose, where the freshness of fruit, blackcurrant, strawberry, and blackberry is enriched with delicate notes of tobacco, cedar, olive, and sweet spices.
Palate A full-bodied, well-balanced palate, combining a smooth texture, lively acidity, and rounded tannins, with finesse and freshness that accurately reflect the Puente Alto terroir.
The sommelier's advice
Temperature Serve at 14 to 16°C.
Food Lamb skewers, ossobuco, grilled rib of beef or ribeye steak, spicy sauces.
Cellar ageing From now until 2042
The estate and the wine
The estate and the wine In 1997, Baroness Philippine de Rothschild and Don Eduardo Guilisasti Tagle, two towering figures of the wine world, sealed a visionary alliance between two historic families: Baron Philippe de Rothschild, founded in 1853, and Viña Concha y Toro, created in 1883. From this union was born Almaviva, a wine conceived from the outset as a true work of art.

Almaviva is the extraordinary meeting point of two worlds and two cultures:

Chile, with the raw power of its nature, the spectacular terroirs of Puente Alto, its stony soils, its clockwork climate and its passionate people. France, with its ancestral savoir-faire, its Bordeaux heritage and its tireless pursuit of elegance and harmony. The result? A wine that combines the sun-drenched power of the New World with the refined elegance of the Old Continent.
Wine Deep ruby color. A complex, fresh and fruit-driven nose with aromas of blackcurrant, strawberry and blackberry, lifted by tobacco, cedar, olive and gentle spice. On the palate it shows breadth, balance and silky texture, carried by lively acidity. The tannins are round, polished, juicy and approachable. An elegant, precise and harmonious wine with impressive length, true to the terroir of Puente Alto.
Vinification Hand harvested grapes. Traditional vinification. Aged for 20 months in French oak barrels, 73% of which are new.