Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon

Don Melchor's style, complexity, and elegance is the result of the perfect balance between the stony Puente Alto soil, the generous Maipo Alto Valley climate, the cold winds that blow down from the Andes, the years that the vines have taken to offer their best grapes, and the meticulous care and detailed work of the human hand.

The 2017 vintage was marked by a year of tremendous quality and balance. The temperatures were generally warmer than usual, but dropped at the onset of the harvest season, which allowed the grapes to ripen perfectly and obtain excellent fruity expression and ultimately, to produce a wine of extraordinary elegance, vivacity, and structure.
The 2017 vintage is 98% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2% Cabernet Franc.
Enrique Tirado J.
Winemaker

Please drink responsibly: The UK Chief Medical Officers recommend adults do not regularly drink more than 14 units per week

Wine of Puente Alto, Chile

Chile

Bottle

Bottle - Widely Recycled

Origin:
Wine of Chile

Importer:
Concha y Toro UK Ltd.,
Oxfordshire,
England,
0X33 1ER,
U.K.

VCT Sweden AB,
Dalagatan 34,
11324 Stockholm,
Sweden.

Additional Information:
10.9 UK Units per bottle
Drink Responsibly
UK Government recommends adults do not regularly exceed:
Men 3-4 units a day
Women 2-3 units a day
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Bottle - Glass - widely recycled

Region of Origin: Puente Alto
This wine can be drunk now but will further improve if carefully stored for up to [30]

Contains Eggs, Contains Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites
Contains Sulphites, Egg

Don Melchor

30th Anniversary 1987-2017
Don Melchor Celebrate Its 30 Th Anniversary with The Extraordinary 2017 Vintage

In 1883, Don Melchor Concha y Toro planted his first viniferous vines, Cabernet Sauvignon, at the foot of the majestic Andes Mountains. 100 years later, the visionary vintner Eduardo Guilisasti Tagle encouraged the development of a wine that would faithfully express its origin And so arose, in 1987, the first vintage of Don Melchor from the century-old vineyard in Puente Alto, a terroir of exceptional conditions for growing the best Cabernet Sauvignon in the world.

Produced and bottled by:
Viña Don Melchor SpA,
Av. Virginia Subercaseaux 210,
Pirque-Chile.

Chile

Concha y Toro UK Ltd.,
Oxfordshire,
England,
0X33 1ER,
U.K.

After more than 30 years, Don Melchor has become a reference for excellence, not just in Chile but as one of the finest Cabernet Sauvignons in the world. With 3 appearances in the Wine Spectator's Top 10 Wines of the World and 9 appearances in the Top 100. This identity is built upon a base of three fundamental pillars—its impeccable heritage and history, the peerless conditions of its terroir, and the deep understanding and expertise in the making of the Don Melchor wine.

Concha y Toro UK Ltd

Cabernet Sauvignon

2020

Puente Alto is a privileged terroir, determined by the singular combination of soil, climate conditions, the vineyard, and a delicate human touch to craft vintages that are a faithful expression of this special place. Located at the foot of the Andes, 650 metres above sea level, the Don Melchor winery is set on the north bank of the Maipo River and has long been a keystone in the history of Chilean wine. Ever since French pre-phylloxera vines were imported in the mid-19th Century, this part of the Maipo Valley has been growing in prestige and quality, building on a past rich in tradition.

Deep cherry red in colour. Don Melchor 2017 is a wine with extraordinary elegance. Full of aromas and flavours and a marked presence of red berries. On the palate, there are strong notes of Cabernet Sauvignon from Puente Alto, with fine and delicate tannins, while also providing a good density and long-lasting finish

14.5

10.9

Viña Concha y Toro S.A.

Enrique Tirado

Hand picked grapes are manually picked and sorted, before entering stainless steel tanks for 10 days of alcoholic fermentation with manual pump over. At the end of the maceration period, each tank is devatted, tasted and selected by the Don Melchor winemaking team and then transferred to French oak barrels for 15 months (67% new, 33% second use).