Wine Tarapaca, "Santa Cecilia" Semi-Sweet Red, 2017
Tasting Notes
Ruby-colored wine with a purple hue.
The taste of the wine is balanced, light and pleasant, has perfectly balanced sweet and sour accents, soft texture and delicate tannin structure against the background of fruit and berry tones.
The intense and generous aroma of wine is dominated by notes of ripe black and red berries in the frame of alluring vanilla nuances.
It is recommended to use wine paired with poultry meat (duck, chicken, turkey), a variety of pasta and cheese cuts.
Interesting Facts
Vintage for the manufacture of red semi-sweet wine "Santa Cecilia" is carried out in April by mechanical means. To create it, the producer uses the Syrah and Mishn (Pais) grape varieties. The fermentation process is carried out in stainless steel tanks at a temperature of 28 ° C. To the aroma of wine turned out more vivid and rich, winemakers pump wort 2-3 times a day. Even before the completion of alcoholic fermentation, the juice is separated from solids, such as peel, ridges and seeds. Before bottling the wine "Santa Cecilia" filtered.
Tarapaca - one of the most important wineries in Chile, one of the main representatives of the wineries of the New World. The winery was founded in 1874 in the Maipo Valley, at the foot of the Andes. This fertile place, according to the Decanter magazine, "is quickly becoming one of the most famous regions of Chile with a cool climate and wines made from natural low-yield vineyards . " In Tarapac, the best grapes are selected by which the correct terroir is selected, which, along with careful vinification, results in high-quality, balanced and complex wines. The task of the winery - "to produce high-quality wines with excellent balance and taste." In the year Tarapac produces more than 13 million liters of wine. The average age of the vines of the farm is 12-15 years. After more than 100 years of producing great wines on the domestic market, in 1992 Tarapacá began to export wines, conquering major international markets.
The Tarapacá winery is now part of the VSPT Wine Group of Companies, which also includes other wineries in Argentina and Chile. VSPT is the first company in the local market and the second for exporting wines from Chile.
