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In his annual summary of the 10 best wines for winter, Drinkhacker’s founder and editor-in-chief, Christopher Null, declared the 2019 Don Melchor to be the best.
Referring to Don Melchor as “perhaps Chile’s best wine,” Null said he considered the 2019 vintage to be at the top. “The dense chocolate, the vanilla, and the black fruit dispel any sense of excess tannic acid, and it ends with notes of licorice, violets, and lavender on the finish.”
The 2019 vintage of Don Melchor, led by Enrique Tirado, Technical Director and CEO of Viña Don Melchor, is composed of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc, 2% Merlot, and 1% de Petit Verdot and was aged for 15 months in French oak barrels, 72% new and 28% second use.
Along with his excellent score for the most recent vintage of Don Melchor, Atkin defined the wine as “Deftly oaked in 71% new oak, it has alluring graphite and dried herb aromas, cassis, fig and red berry fruit, serious but not overwhelming tannins and more finesse and freshness in its…
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Another excellent score is added to Don Melchor’s long list of accolades with these 97 points for the 2020 vintage from James Suckling in his most recent report on Chile, “Deep and serious with black olives, blackberries, blueberries, tobacco leaf, sweet red capsicum, ash, dried meat and a hint of…
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