Heredad
Ugarte
Cincuenta,
2009,
13.5
p e r c e n t
($14), a
one
hundred percent
Tempranillo,
aged
in French oak for
10 months.
The
name comes from how
many years Dad ran the
business.
Unfortunately
despite another 90-point WA
rating, the Ugarte had features
of bad Chilean wine, an unnatural
chemical bouquet reductive. This
was something that my Aunt Rhoda
would have made.
On the more traditional side we started
with Artardi Vinas de Gain, 2000, 14 percent
($29), a Tempranillo from 40- to 60-year-old
vines aged in 40 percent new French oak for 12
to 14 months. It had a weird-looking composite-
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