For our tasting today David Allen MW, Wine-Searcher’s Wine Director tastes a wine from Lapostolle’s Apalta vineyards. The wine is a premium, Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated blend in a rich, ripe style. It is well made and offers plenty of value for money if not great elegance.
Casa Lapostolle is a wine producer from Chile. While the compant gives its date o establishment as 1827 the winemaking side was founded in 1994 by Alexandra Marnier Lapostolle. At the time the family controlled the Grand Marnier spirits brand, until it was taken over by Campari in 2016.
The estate consists of three vineyards in three different regions totalling 370 hectares (914 acres). The Apalta vineyard, in the Colchagua Valley, is planted to Carmenère with Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and Syrah.
The oldest blocks date back to the 1920s and include vines imported from France. The best plots from here are used for the Clos Apalta wine.
The coastal-influenced Casablanca Valley has 57 hectares (140 acres) of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
There are 116 hectares (287 acres) planted to Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc and Syrah at Casa Lapostolle’s property in the Cachapoal Valley.
Borobo, which has a small component of Pinot Noir, is a deluxe cuvée sourced from all three sites. At the more everyday end of the spectrum, Lapostolle makes the Casa and Cuvée Alexandre wines.
Lapostolle’s main winery at Cunaco, where the majority of the wine is made, has a capacity of 3.3 million liters in stainless steel tanks and French oak. Its cellar holds over 3,500 oak barrels. Clos Apalta has its own, gravity-fed winery in Colchagua.
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