2011 Los Vascos Le Dix

Chateau Lafite Rothschild is one of the five Great Growths of Bordeaux, and amongst the world's most expensive bottles of wine. Not content with the success of just one vineyard, over the last 30 years, the owners of Chateau Lafite, Domaines Barons de Rothschild, have made strategic acquisitions around the globe, selecting specific sites that possess the terroir required to produce exciting New World wines with Lafite Rothschild's unique First Growth stamp. One of their first new world ventures was that of Los Vascos in Chile’s Colchagua Valley.

A blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Carmenere and 5% Syrah with maturation taking place in new French oak barrels. Opaque black crimson colour with a dark purple crimson tinged hue. The nose features lifted blackcurrant and dark cherry aromas intermixed with some tobacco, cedar, earth and spice notes. The palate shows Bordeaux like elegance and refinement with flavours of blackcurrants and mulberries interlaced with cedary tobacco and light earth followed by some spices on the dryish finish. Firmly built, yet with very fine grained tannins the wine is still quite reserved and in need of some bottle age to unfurl itself. Long aftertaste of blackcurrant, cedary tobacco and spice.