My Angel
I have to share this wine with you all. It has to be one of the best I have had in a very long time under $100. You owe it to yourself to try it as long as you like chewy reds. This is NOT a beginers wine. One of the most robust and complex, but smooth! Absolutely delicious!
Product Notes:
“A very ambitious style, with dark, exotic toast leading the way for fig
sauce, currant paste and Turkish coffee flavors that manage to stay
pure and driven. The long, very polished finish let a mineral note echo.
Carmenère and Petit Verdot. Drink now through 2011. 11,000 cases made.
–JM” -Rated 91, Wine Spectator
“The 2006 Purple Angel is
composed of 92% Carmenere and 8% Petit Verdot (an increasingly important
blending grape in Chile) aged for 18 months in new French oak before
bottling without filtration. Purple/black in color, it has a splendid
perfume of toasty oak, pencil lead, incense, sage, blueberry, and
blackberry. Layered, bordering on opulent, this full-throttle wine has
gobs of fruit, succulent flavors, and a long, pure finish. Cellar it for
5-7 years and drink it from 2015 to 2026. It is another example of just
how good Carmenere can be when grown in the right terroir with extended
hang-time. Aurelio Montes remains one of Chile’s great innovators and
quality leaders. His latest releases are first class from entry level to
the top of the portfolio.” -Rated 93, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
“The
nose of black olive, grilled beef and black fruit is made elegant via a
floral perfume, and overall this big-boned Carmenère is beautifully
balanced and loaded with cola, blackberry, licorice and chocolate. Dark
as night on the finish, and ageable for a few years. — M.S. (9/1/2009)”
-Rated 92, Wine Enthusiast
“Glass-staining ruby. Pungent scents
of red and dark berry preserves are complicated by musky herbs, cracked
pepper and potpourri, with a suave undercurrent of oak spices. Sweet,
pliant blackberry and candied cherry flavors are framed by velvety
tannins and given a tangy edge by a bright minerality that builds on the
finish. This will reward patience but is pretty delicious right now.”
-Rated 92, Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar
Product Notes:
“A very ambitious style, with dark, exotic toast leading the way for fig
sauce, currant paste and Turkish coffee flavors that manage to stay
pure and driven. The long, very polished finish let a mineral note echo.
Carmenère and Petit Verdot. Drink now through 2011. 11,000 cases made.
–JM” -Rated 91, Wine Spectator
“The 2006 Purple Angel is
composed of 92% Carmenere and 8% Petit Verdot (an increasingly important
blending grape in Chile) aged for 18 months in new French oak before
bottling without filtration. Purple/black in color, it has a splendid
perfume of toasty oak, pencil lead, incense, sage, blueberry, and
blackberry. Layered, bordering on opulent, this full-throttle wine has
gobs of fruit, succulent flavors, and a long, pure finish. Cellar it for
5-7 years and drink it from 2015 to 2026. It is another example of just
how good Carmenere can be when grown in the right terroir with extended
hang-time. Aurelio Montes remains one of Chile’s great innovators and
quality leaders. His latest releases are first class from entry level to
the top of the portfolio.” -Rated 93, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
“The
nose of black olive, grilled beef and black fruit is made elegant via a
floral perfume, and overall this big-boned Carmenère is beautifully
balanced and loaded with cola, blackberry, licorice and chocolate. Dark
as night on the finish, and ageable for a few years. — M.S. (9/1/2009)”
-Rated 92, Wine Enthusiast
“Glass-staining ruby. Pungent scents
of red and dark berry preserves are complicated by musky herbs, cracked
pepper and potpourri, with a suave undercurrent of oak spices. Sweet,
pliant blackberry and candied cherry flavors are framed by velvety
tannins and given a tangy edge by a bright minerality that builds on the
finish. This will reward patience but is pretty delicious right now.”
-Rated 92, Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar
94 Points – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate:
“The 2007 Purple Angel is a blend of Carmenere and Petit Verdot that
might be the only competition for Terrunyo’s Carmin de Peumo for top
Carmenere-based wine in Chile. Purple/black in color, it displays a
splendid nose of exotic spices, herbs, lavender, incense, blueberry, and
blackberry. Dense, chewy, and opulent on the palate, this is a rich,
already complex offering that is meant strictly for pleasure-seekers.
Enjoy it from 2013-2022.” (12/2010)
91 Points – Wine Spectator Magazine:
“Broad and ripe, displaying layers of boysenberry, plum and fig fruit
all held together by notes of maduro tobacco, spice cake and smoked
applewood. The long, rich finish lets a dark licorice note play out.
Drink now through 2011. 2,050 cases imported.” –JM (10/15/2010)
93+
Points – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate (2006 vintage):
“The 2006 Purple Angel is composed of 92% Carmenere and 8% Petit Verdot
(an increasingly important blending grape in Chile) aged for 18 months
in new French oak before bottling without filtration. Purple/black in
color, it has a splendid perfume of toasty oak, pencil lead, incense,
sage, blueberry, and blackberry. Layered, bordering on opulent, this
full-throttle wine has gobs of fruit, succulent flavors, and a long,
pure finish. Cellar it for 5-7 years and drink it from 2015 to 2026. It
is another example of just how good Carmenere can be when grown in the
right terroir with extended hang-time.
Aurelio Montes remains one
of Chile’s great innovators and quality leaders. His latest releases
are first class from entry level to the top of the portfolio.” -Jay
Miller (6/2009)
xxx
Brandi
