Includes 7% of each of Petit Verdot and Syrah; and given 18 months in French barrels, almost all new. Extravagantly purple. Dramatic aromas of crushed black fruit, black pepper, cigar box and coffee. Intense bittersweet black fruit, excitingly fresh and juicy. Velvety tannins. Splendid spice aromatics. Very long, with pure black fruit on the finish. Approachable now, but best 2011-2018

Product Code: ERR307

Errázuriz is one of Chile’s historic wineries, established at Panquehue in 1870 by Don Maximiano Errázuriz, against the prevailing trend of planting to the south of Santiago in Maipo. It became the largest vineyard in the world owned by a single family, but it was sold after the Great War and shrank in the twentieth century until it was purchased in 1981 by Alfonso Chadwick, and thereby effectively returned to family ownership, as Alfonso’s mother was an Errázuriz. Now under the exacting stewardship of Alfonso’s son Eduardo, and with the brilliant, well travelled Francisco Baettig as winemaker, it has become the very model of a forward-looking, dynamic Chilean estate, the seventh largest Chilean wine exporter.

We focus at Errázuriz on the wide selection of beautifully crafted, suave, premium wines, with Carmenère and Cabernet from the vineyards near the estate in Aconcagua; and Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and a late harvest Sauvignon Blanc from cooler Casablanca - see opposite.  Kai, the estate’s Icon Carmenère, appears in our list for the first time. We have tasted this wine since it was launched with the 2005 vintage. The 2007 is an extraordinary wine, in our opinion certainly superior to the 2006 vintage, which was scored at 97/100 in the Wine Advocate, and came top in a blind tasting in May in New York against other top Cabernet-based wines of the 2006 vintage, including Lafite, Haut-Brion, Sassicaia and Opus One.