Maquis Franco Cabernet Franc 2010
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The 2010 Franco is Cabernet Franc, a serious wine with some austerity, a sense of earth and minerals, a texture or a feeling more than a flavor. It is intense, powerful, with strong personality, combining power and finesse, very good balance, acidity and freshness. Structured but juicy. This is the third vintage for this superb Cabernet Franc from a warm climate. It has finesse and balance, with an Audrey Hepburn kind of complexity and elegance. It’s approachable now, but should also age well. Drink now-2020.
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With its compact nose of blackberry and cassis aromas, this wine comes across as ripe and modern. In the mouth, it’s round, bouncy, tannic and exuberant, but not overdone. Flavors of blackberry and fig are smooth, while the finish is rich and ready. Editors' Choice.
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The Hurtado family has owned the Viña Maquis vineyard for more than a century, but it wasn’t until almost 20 years ago that the family decided to make their own wine out of the terrific grapes in their own backyard. They built a state-of-the-art gravity flow winery and set out to make the Maquis winery one of the great properties in all of South America.
Located in Colchagua Valley, the winery’s focus is on distinctive single-vineyard, estate wines, as well as producing “balanced” wines that are not over-ripe (resulting in excessively high alcohol) but also not exhibiting any of the “green” character that sometimes plagues wines picked from grapes that have not fully matured. The Maquis main vineyard is essentially an island: it is deeply influenced by the Tinguiririca River on one side and the Chimbarongo Creek on the other. These two large waterways once brought alluvial sediment from the Andes and today act as pathways for cool coastal breezes that help moderate the warm Colchagua summers, contributing to the intensity, character, fruitiness and mineral elements of the Maquis wines. Maquis is fortunate to have such a privileged location.