Caractéristiques
- Pays:
- Chili
- Appellation précise:
- Aconcagua Valley
- Millésime:
- 2018
- Couleur:
- Rouge
- Type de vin:
- Sec
- Format:
- Bouteille de 75cl
- Cépage(s):
- 53% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Carmenère, 25% Malbec et 7% Petit Verdot
- Elevage:
- Élevage de 22 mois (90% de fûts de chêne français neufs, 10% en foudres)
Dégustation et Garde
- Boire à partir de :
- 2024
- Apogée :
- 2028-2038
- Boire avant :
- 2040+
- Conseil de service :
- Carafer longuement
- Servir à :
- 18°
Description
Voici l'icône de l’Aconcagua fondée par Eduardo Chadwick (Viña Errazuriz) et Robert Mondavi (co-fondateur d'Opus One en Californie). Fermentation en cuve inox et élevage en barrique neuve pendant 22 mois.
Sena 2018 nous offre tout le soleil chilien dans le verre. Son nez très enjôleur, plein et gourmand exprime les fruits des bois (framboises et groseilles), la réglisse, la menthe et le bois toasté. A l’ouverture, des notes de laurier, de tabac, de cacao et de clou de girofle se dévoilent dans une belle finesse. En bouche, la matière très large offre une gourmandise de fruit hallucinante. Les tanins bien ronds appellent la table, persistance fraîche sur la confiture de cassis.
Suggestion gourmande
Aiguillettes de canard en ballotine aux cèpes, carottes rôties au cumin.
Avis des Experts
James Suckling
"This is a very thoughtful Seña that shows unique aromas of warm earth, mushrooms and conifer, turning to dark berries and black olives. The palate is more glamorous with ultra-fine tannins that envelop your palate. Shows power and vibrancy at the end. Toned muscles. It’s a very intellectual wine that harkens back to the 2015. Blend of 55% cabernet sauvignon, 18% malbec, 15% carmenere, 7% cabernet franc and 5% petit verdot. Beautiful to try now, but better after 2023."
The Wine Advocate
"The 2018 Seña shows the fresher side of the Ocoa zone of the Aconcagua Valley through a Bordeaux blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Malbec, 15% Carmenere, 7% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot; there are small differences, but nothing substantial. As I've seen in other wines from the very complete 2018 vintage, the grapes ripened thoroughly and achieved more flavors and nuances, and the wines are slightly higher in alcohol (14% this year versus 13.3% in 2017, but in reality it's 13.8% ). But the wine seems to have more of everything. The grapes fermented in a combination of stainless steel and concrete vats and matured in new barriques and Stockinger foudres for 22 months, a similar formula as the one used for Viñedo Chadwick. This is a very elegant vintage of Seña, a year with a slow ripening so that the grapes achieved very good ripeness and full development of aromas and flavors, making the wine nuanced and complex, with depth but also freshness and finesse—floral and expressive. The tannins are very fine, polished and elegant, and the wine is long and complex, mixing the best f 2015 and 2016, coming through as a very complete year. It's still a little young and should develop nicely in bottle; it's approachable now, but if you can hold it a little bit more, it should be even better. This has to be the finest vintage of Seña to date. Comparing it with the Chadwick from the same year, there is more freshness and a little more complexity and clout coming form the cooler zone and the palette of varieties used that give more options to achieve more nuance. 100,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in February and March 2020."
Si vous deviez découvrir un seul vin chilien, ce serait lui, le plus grand de tous !