WINEMAKER'S NOTES:
Lapostolle Cuvée Alexandre Carmenére boasts a complex nose with red and black fruit, spice, herbal, and vanilla aromas. Bright and vivid, it is harvested late in the season, producing a medium structure with juicy, round tannins.
Pair Carmenére with dishes such as rabbit or four-cheese pasta with grated truffles. Lapostolle Cuvée Alexandre Carmenére can be cellared for several years.
TASTING NOTES:
This bottling is quite consistent in quality and shows excellent balance. Fruitier than many previous vintages, with fine-grained tannins, juicy fruit and a lengthy finish. Drink now or hold.
- James Suckling, 93 pts.
The 2023 Carménère Cuvée Alexandre Lapostolle is 89% Carménère, 6% Syrah and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, all from Apalta. This aged for 13 months in second- and third-use 225-liter French oak barrels. It opens with red fruit, plum and ripe blackberry, with soft oak and gentle spice. What stands out is the restrained palate—elegant and finely grippy with a subtle cling, delivering the finesse of Chile in a warm year. Delicate pyrazines appear on the finish.
- Vinous, 91 pts.
Containing 6% Syrah and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2023 Cuvée Alexandre Carmenère introduces itself with a dark-fruited, plummy nose with a subtle herbal tint and graphite flourishes. The palate is lush yet silky and streamlined in profile, concluding with a long, elegantly structured finish of delineated tannins.
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 90 pts.
