CIMAROSA | Winemaker’s Selection | 2012
cabernet sauvignon | syrah | carmenère
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Today we are going to review a wine that we were lucky to come by – Cimarosa Winemaker’s Selection 2012 by Christian Rojas. This is a Wine of Chile and is a blend made of cabernet sauvignon, syrah and carmenère grape varieties – a formula used with much success lately, where cabernet sauvignon forms the main base and body, syrah adds structure and spiciness, whereas carménère adds that extra smoothness and rounds up the final blend. Without any further ado, let’s move on to the tasting.
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Take a look at the tasting notes below and our detailed assessment of the wine:
Visual
Deep garnet color, deep but not opaque, with shades of bright copper towards the rim of the glass.
Olfactory
The nose is rich, filled mostly with red fruits: ripe sour cherry, red plum, red currant, sweet cherry, cranberry, cherry tree wood, dried oakwood, nutmeg, wolfberry and dried cherry. An instant later the nose is filled with notes of red pepper, cinnamon, cherry seeds, tobacco and some nuanced hints of leather.
Gustatory
The wine is dry, with high alcohol level, high acidity and fine tannin. It feels round, supple and bold, with a nuanced fruity-leathery accent. This is a spicy, oaky and complex wine, which has a nuanced new-world profile. The wine has a fair overall balance and it feels muscular and well structured, with a sweet spiciness on the palate.
Aftertaste
It has a long finish and a quite balanced, maybe just a bit astringent aftertaste.
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This is definitely a great Wine of Chile and the overall rating says the same, with 90.8 points scored it is right there, among the best wines we’ve tasted so far. Please click on the chart icon on the left in order to get to the wine rating page, where you can find all the wines we’ve tasted to date.
Conclusion: this is a wine that is just a bit over its prime form – fruity, ripe and supple, a wine that display signs of decline, yet a wine that is worth a bit more bottle ageing (12 to 24 months). We would recommend to pair this wine with spicy dishes, like for example a pepper-and-spice-rubbed rib eye steak or some spicy grilled flank steak with lime, as the spiciness in the dish will counter-balance the tannic notes in the wine and will complement almost to perfection those spicy-leathery notes in the wine. Enjoy!
WineStatistics tasting results:
CIMAROSA
Winemaker’s Selection | 2012
grape: | cabernet sauvignon | syrah | carmenère |
overall rating: | 90.8 |
conclusion: great | a must try
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