Name: Sierra Cruz Carmenere
Variety: Carmenere
Region: Maule Valley
Country: Chile
Year: 2009
Price: $6.95
Winery Review:
As a member of the cabernet sauvignon family, carmenere (pronounced car-men-yare) originated in Bordeaux as one of the grapes permitted for use in the red blends of that storied region. Chilean winemakers have embraced it and several wineries in that country produce it as a single varietal. The ’09 Sierra Cruz is a very pleasant, soft, mediumbodied wine that has fresh cabernet-like aromas and flavors of spice, dark fruit and black pepper. It is a great value and also would be a nice match with marinated and grilled skirt or flank steak. -Vintage Cellar
My review:
Smell -The aroma on this wine was heavy with dark berries. There was some black cherry and some blackberry hidden in there. There was a little bit of a vegetable smell. I was never super sure of what I was smelling but it was almost the flavor of a sweet onion.
Taste - On the front end, this wine was super tannic with heavy oak flavors. In the mid palate, I tasted carbdoard. Yes, cardboard. My brain focused hard on that flavor because it was so distinct but strange. On the back end I got some black pepper, but the cardboard flavor lingered in my mouth for a while. The cardboard flavor definitely threw me off and made me not terribly care for this wine.
I tasted this wine without food.
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