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Escudo Rojo Chardonnay Reserva Chile 2021 (750ml)
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The palate is pleasantly full, the attack reveals the aromatic intensity of tropical fruit such...
| Producer | Escudo Rojo Chardonnay Reserva Chile |
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| Country | Chile |
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| Region | Valle de Casablanca |
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| Varietal | 100% Chardonnay |
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| Vintage | 2021 |
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| Sku | 31691 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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Rated 92 Points by James Suckling
Rich lees with some oatmeal, pastry and ripe pineapple. A medium-to full-bodied chardonnay with fresh acidity and good flavors and weight to the mid-palate. Some nuanced minerality in the finish.
Escudo Rojo Chardonnay Reserva 2021
Escudo Rojo Chardonnay is sourced from a selection of the best parcels in the Casablanca Valley, the region in Chile most renowned for the quality of its Chardonnay. With its Bordeaux style, Baron Philippe de Rothschild has created an elegant and highly refined wine.
Tasting Notes
The aromatic power of Chardonnay is immediately apparent in voluptuous tropical fruit and yellow peach aromas, followed on airing by notes of gingerbread and toasted brioche. The palate is pleasantly full, the attack reveals the aromatic intensity of tropical fruit such as pineapple and passion fruit. The round and dense mid-palate displays a range of tropical fruit flavors together with notes of toasted almond and mild spices such as cumin and cinnamon, building to an attractively long finish on elegant touches of toasted hazelnut, mild spice and pineapple.
Vinification
The grapes are hand-picked in order to preserve all their freshness and aromatic potential. All the stages of the vinification process are carried out at low temperature in order to preserve the aromatic potential and freshness of the fruit.
Aging
Half the vintage is matured in one-year-old oak barrels for about nine months to achieve a harmonious balance between oaky notes and the freshness of the fruit. 25% new oak and 75% 1-2 year-old barrels.
Vineyard
This wine comes from the “Valle de Casablanca”, situated near the Pacific Coast 80 km north west of Santiago. The ocean influence is very strong, helping to regulate the temperature. It is ideal country for white wine grape varieties, especially Chardonnay.
Baron Philippe de Rothschild Maipo Chile's winemakers have chosen the “Valle de Casablanca” vineyards for their mild climate, which allows the grapes to ripen slowly, and for their soil: silty sand, which favors the refinement and freshness of the fruit, and granitic soil closer to the coastal mountains, which brings elegance. The wines are fresh and mineral, while keeping a certain power and a remarkable balance between alcohol and acidity.
Escudo Rojo Chardonnay Reserva Chile Description
Escudo Rojo
Worthy Heir of Baron Philippe De Rothschild In Chile
Escudo Rojo is an iconic Chilean brand created by Baron Philippe de Rothschild to produce the best wines in each category and market them worldwide. The wines strike a harmonious balance between freshness, fruit, oak, fullness on the palate and ageing potential. In addition to the flagship blended wine, the Escudo Rojo range includes five varietal wines: Carmenere, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. All the wines in the range express a distinctive character, reflecting the expression of its terroir.
Escudo Rojo is the Spanish translation of the German “Rote Schild” meaning Red Shield. In 1999, the encounter between Chilean soil and Bordeaux expertise gave rise to Escudo Rojo, a branded wine worthy of the Baron Philippe de Rothschild name, synonymous with the high standards of a great winemaking tradition. Vines were first introduced into Chile in the 16th century by the Spanish Conquistadors and their religious orders who needed wine to celebrate mass. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay vines were imported from France in the 19th century in order to make finer wines.
Located at Buin-Maipo, 45 kilometers south of Santiago in the famous Maipo Valley, the Baron Philippe de Rothschild Maipo Chile bodega stands in its own 63-hectare (156-acre) vineyard. The wines are made, matured, bottled and packaged at the estate under the supervision of a French winemaker and under the control of an in-house laboratory. For each of its wines, the winery selects the best parcels in Chile’s most highly reputed valleys in order to make wines which consistently combine refinement and character. Regular sources of supply and constant quality are also guaranteed by long-term contracts with partner winegrowers, especially further south, in the Rapel Valley. A rigorous parcel selection procedure has been created, with each parcel being tested for three years in order to ensure that the grapes are of sufficiently high quality to be used to make Escudo Rojo.
All the grapes are picked by hand in small 10-kilo baskets in order to preserve the fruit. The grapes are then sorted twice before entering the winery: first by hand on a sorting table, then after destemming. This is a proactive approach to quality that is rarely used in even the most prestigious vineyards, this practice demonstrates Escudo Rojo’s ambitious quality standards. Escudo Rojo strikes a harmonious balance between freshness, fruit, oak, fullness on the palate and ageing potential. In order to achieve this harmony, some of the wine is matured in oak barrels and the rest in stainless steel vats. After maturing, the wines are fined with egg-white and filtered. The proportion of each grape variety in the final blend for Escudo Rojo varies slightly from year to year in order to ensure an expressive wine of the highest quality.
