La Playa Tinga Cabernet Sauvignon

With water comes life: tinga is what the native people of chile called the loud river which brought life to their land. Today water from the tingauiririca river runs through our sustainably farmed vineyards and nourishes specifically selected vines to create our block selection reserve wines. Notes from the winemaker oscar salas steinlen: this wine has a deep maroon color. On the nose strawberry marmalade with hints of black pepper. It has large colume and structure with notes of mocha coffee and blueberry. Colchagua valley chile the 2013 harvest began and finished later than normal from mid-march to late-may. During this cooled extended harvest late-ripening varieties such as carmenere and cabernet sauvignon flourished. Temperatures being 5 to 8 degrees lower than the average harvest allowed for lighter more elegant wines. – tinga