Santa Carolina Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon

Price per 75cl: £6.99, Full bodied and concentrated, bursting with blackcurrant fruit flavours, cassis and hints of cedar wood on the long velvety finish. This wine is a good match with tomato based pasta sauces, especially Bolognese and red meat dishes. The grapes were grown in the Miraflores vineyards, which has some of the oldest vines in the Colchagua Valley. The valley has the perfect weather for growing grapes with clearly defined seasons with cool, rainy winters and warm summers with high daytime temperatures, moderated by cool nights. This allows the grapes to slowly ripen and develop complex flavours. The wine was aged for 8 months in French and American oak barrels before being bottled. Santa Carolina has been a pioneer of Chilean wine since 1875 when Luis Pereyra Cotapos founded the winery, which he named after his wife. This wine will age well for another 3 years.