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Escudo Rojo - Chardonnay Reserva 2022
Description
Escudo Rojo Chardonnay is sourced from a selection of the best parcels in the Casablanca Valley, the region in Chile most renowned for the quality of its Chardonnay. With its Bordeaux style, Baron Philippe de Rothschild has created an elegant and highly refined wine.
Vineyard
This wine comes from the “Valle de Casablanca”, situated near the Pacific Coast 80 km north west of Santiago. The ocean influence is very strong, helping to regulate the temperature. It is ideal country for white wine grape varieties, especially Chardonnay.
Baron Philippe de Rothschild Maipo Chile's winemakers have chosen the “Valle de Casablanca” vineyards for their mild climate, which allows the grapes to ripen slowly, and for their soil: silty sand, which favors the refinement and freshness of the fruit, and granitic soil closer to the coastal mountains, which brings elegance. The wines are fresh and mineral, while keeping a certain power and a remarkable balance between alcohol and acidity.
Aging
Half the vintage is matured in one-year-old oak barrels for about nine months to achieve a harmonious balance between oaky notes and the freshness of the fruit. 25% new oak and 75% 1-2 year-old barrels.
Tasting notes
The aromatic power of Chardonnay is immediately apparent in voluptuous tropical fruit and yellow peach aromas, followed on airing by notes of gingerbread and toasted brioche.
The palate is pleasantly full, the attack reveals the aromatic intensity of tropical fruit such as pineapple and passion fruit. The round and dense mid-palate displays a range of tropical fruit flavors together with notes of toasted almond and mild spices such as cumin and cinnamon, building to an attractively long finish on elegant touches of toasted hazelnut, mild spice and pineapple.
Vinification
The grapes are hand-picked in order to preserve all their freshness and aromatic potential. All the stages of the vinification process are carried out at low temperature in order to preserve the aromatic potential and freshness of the fruit.
