PARGUA 2015

HARVEST  ✸  Maipo presented high temperatures during the season, which made the record of the highest thermal sum of the last three seasons, winning March 20 being the hottest day since 2012 with 36.2 °C. In turn he recorded the lowest number of frosty days.

The total rainfalls exceeded the records of previous season, but were below to those experienced in the 2012-2013 seasons. 

However, no precipitation occurred during flowering or harvest, favoring the health of the grapes. As for the quality of wines, this year presented very good aromatic expression, juicy and well-structured tannins intensity.

Vinification was traditional, as with all Pargua vintages, with a slow and long extraction. 

For the 2015 vintage, Pargua aged 18 months in barrels, 60% in new, with varying degrees of medium toast. Wood mainly comes from center, Tronçais and Nièvre. Soft fining with egg whites and very light filtration finish the process.

TASTING NOTES  ✸  The 2015 starts with a deep and lively ruby garnet and offers a quite exhuberant nose of ripe and candied fruits like cherries, blackcurrants and plums with candied lavander. Fresh leather, tobacco, noble spicy wood and dried aromatic herbs rise then above underbrush tones with peppery and meaty accents.
The mouth is all about roundness and fleshy texture, also offering deepness thanks to its good structure made of velvety fine tannins. Balance and density untill a generous finish of ripe wild berries, noble spices and an automnal spirit promessing a charming complexity to come.