Viña Vik "VIK" 2013 i trækasse

Tasting Panel Magazine

Wine Review Online

VIK is the flagship wine and the icon of the winery, a rich red blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Cabernet Franc, 14% Carmenere, and 2% Merlot. Sticking with the book analogies, VIK is the literary classic that will stand the test of time. It has a riveting complexity, like a great classic book that challenges you. The palate is graceful and expansive, unfolding with layers of blackberry, cassis, currant, and a hint of cigar wrapper. The wine resonates with supreme freshness beside fine-grained tannins. It conveys a timeless “Old World” elegance but retains the essence of the dynamic Chilean terroir.

James Suckling

Aromas of flowers, currants, fresh mint and Thai basil. Full body, structured and muscular with a toned texture. Bright and dynamic on the finish. Tangy finish under the fruit and wet earth highlights. Mostly cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, syrah, carmenere and merlot.

Vinepair

#3 Top 50 2018

Desorchados Chile

Tim Atkin

wine-pages.com

The most expensive wine of the tasting at £100 per bottle, this is a Bordeaux blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Cabernet Franc, 14% Carmenere and a touch of Merlot. It comes from an ambitious young estate started just over a decade ago by Alex and Carrie Vik. The wine spends 23 months in a new French oak barrels. Winemaker Cristian Vallejo explains the estate has followed a quality path since day one, with very dense plantings of varieties researched to suit each of the 12 valleys spanned by their estate. They are even planning to use barrels from their own oak forest, and amphorae made from clay found on the estate. Great creamy depth here, a little hint of olive and then dry, savoury black fruit, some tobbaco and more exotic spices, but mostly about the fruit. In the mouth truly sumptuous, with great fruit sweetness and creaminess across the mid-palate, concentrated, but with lovely cherry-fresh juiciness, creamy tannins too, but the oak just caressing and supporting rather than dominating the picture. Very impressive.

Din VinGuide

Flot og lidt urtet næse. Intens og fyldig i smagen med solmodne solbær, tobak, krydderier og vanilje. Den rette balance mellem det solmodne og så elegancen med syren og fadet. En flot og gennemført vin med en lang, vedvarende afslutning. Havde ikke gættet, den havde så meget alder

Vivino