Wine Chateau Kefraya, "Breteches" Rouge, 2020
Tasting Notes
Wine bright ruby-red color.
The taste of wine is dry and full-bodied, with a perfect balance between the notes of fruit and oak, ripe and soft tannins, lingering aftertaste.
In a fragrant bouquet of wine tones of ripe cherry and cassis notes backed by chocolate and pepper, strengthened sweet spices nuances of vanilla and cinnamon.
The wine goes well with meat dishes, pasta, mature cheeses.
Interesting Facts
The range of wines "Reserva" is 7 monosortovyh wines made in Chile elegant style. This shows the wide geographical range of terroirs - from north to south, from the Andes to the Pacific Ocean. Wine "Reserva" vividly express fruity character and a strong personality grapes. Each variety is grown in the ideal place for him, where the vines, soil and climate are in perfect balance. "We showed great fruity grapes with the natural acidity and concentration. As a result, our wines" Reserva "are the perfect balance and complexity" - says Andres Caballero, chief winemaker at Santa Carolina. Famous wine publication "Wine Enthusiast" and "Wine Advocate" recognized wines "Reserva" the best in its category. All seven wines at different times been awarded "Best Buy" from "Wine Enthusiast".
The history of the winery Santa Carolina began in 1875, when the rich visionary entrepreneur Luis Pereira Kotapos decided to take part in the ambitious project of winemaking in South America and bought land in Chile, in Santiago. The name of the winery was born in the name of his beloved wife of Louis - Carolina Iñiguez Vicuña. Luis Pereira invited to Chile a group of three French experts led by the famous enologist Germain Bachelet, who took the best land for vines Chile noble grape varieties from the Bordeaux region - Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay. Together with their families, they settled in Chile and began to work on the plantations and the new winery. With the French architect Emile Doyere was contracted to design and construction of the main warehouse of the winery, which should provide optimum conditions for storing wine in oak barrels in order to ensure high standards of care. The result of this collaboration was so incredible that the warehouse in 1973 was declared a national monument and has remained unchanged and valid to this day. Warehouse was built using brick technology-based mortar, a technique that is used by modern masters. Today things have changed, the company changed its dislocation Santa Carolina and expanded the area of their vineyards to 650 hectares. They are located in prime locations Valley Maipo, Casablanca, Rapel and Maule. Widened and graded composition, today the farm grown varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Syrah, Malbec, Carmenere, Semillon and others. One thing remains unchanged - the tradition, prestige and quality of the wines of Santa Carolina, has been for over a hundred years supporting his fame and present in the most important markets worldwide. Total production is 30 million liters of wine per year.
Producer's description
The Chateau Kefraya estate, located in the western part of the Bekaa Valley, has been owned by the Boustros family for several generations. The castle was built in 1946 on an artificial hill that the Romans used centuries ago to monitor the movement of their troops.
The founder of the winery, visionary Michel de Boustros, planted the first vines in 1951. In 1979, despite the civil war in Lebanon (1975-1990), Chateau Kefray's estate begins to produce wine from grapes grown in its own vineyards and vinified in its own cellar.
The vineyard is spread on the slopes of more than 300 hectares at an altitude of 1000 meters above the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of Mount Baruk in the Bekaa Valley. It crosses the Yammune tectonic fault, the source of a wide variety of terroirs, some of which date back to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Clay-limestone, clay-chalk, as well as sandy and gravelly soils make up a real mosaic.
In addition to a variety of soils, Cheteau Kefraya uses a wide range of grapes in its blends, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Chardonnay and Viognier, and more unusual varieties such as Carmenere, Marselan and Muscat a Petit Grain. The vineyards also grow local varieties such as Obeidi, Merva and Mekssesse, as well as the revival of ancient historical Lebanese red varieties such as Assuad Karech and Asmi Noir.
