El Rescate

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‘El Rescate brings back the tradition of our characteristic Chilean strains. The same ones that along with the Catholic missionaries rolled into our history and walked the same paths we have traveled as a nation.

This is how El Rescate makes a perfect mixture between history, tradition and wine with a unique seal of style and elegance, gathering these three stains in an epic mixture, elegant and harmonious, which, as a final result gives us a unique and unrepeatable wine, matching up with the centuries of history contained in their drops.

Our mixture consists of 52% of Carigan, a 27% of País and a 21% of Cinsault. The Carignan, Araganese strain, gives the strength and the character, País gives its unmistakable flavor and consistency of a rustic and indomitable, while Cinsault contributes with the fresh and elegance of a noble and harmonious strain.

With this wine, discover the typical flavours and tastes from these historical strains in a perfect match with the fine French oak wood where they were aged for 18 months.
The result: a wine with intense but mature tannins, soft, aromatic with a hit of wood and smoke that in no way hide the unique personalities of its iconic strains, which converges in a historical wine that brings us back those tastes and flavours that were always part of our lands.

Milton Figueroa – Oenologist and El Rescate Casa Vekaria’s Project Manager.

Description

Carignan reserve wine: Carignan 52% , Pais 27% and Cinsault 21%

Origin of the grapes: The grapes come from Valle Central, in the subregion of Valle del Maule, coastal land zones.

Valle Central’s lands of the coastal land zone are characterised by its granitoid soils with clay textures, which normally means a slow drain. These grounds contain a low level of organic matter, around 2% and a medium pH of around 5 to 6.

These are rustic and difficult soils, only suitable for some strains that evolutionarily learned how to adapt to the harshness of a dry environment, strong solar radiation during summer time and a low irrigation capacity, which means that only the varieties that are suited for those harshness survive via natural selection.

The harvest is manual and it is done between the first and the second week of April, which is when the grapes of that zone fulfil their full phenolic ripeness (soft and sweet tannins). In addition, during this time of the season the wine gets its appropriate amount of sugar and the right balance of organic acids required for a well-balanced and with fruity characteristics wine.

The winemaking is done with cold maceration for 30 hours before starting the alcoholic fermentation. The remounts are soft for a more light color look and that way avoiding rustic and aggresive tannins, which, in part, are a characteristic of these traditional strains.

The storage is done using American oak casks and French oak semi-toasted casks. The storage takes place for 8 to 10 months (depending on the wine), which adds complex and elegant characteristics to the natural flavour of the mature and fruity wine, with roast, wood and smoke flavourings

Additional Information

TASTING NOTE

It is a smooth, aromatic, and intense wine, with some touches of tobacco and smoke, in addition to strong fruity presence. At sight, it is an intense red colored wine. Shiny, transparent and with little roof tile color like shades. At taste, it is a wine of soft tannins and strong alcohol, along with a very exquisite strength and a unique simplicity. A product of rustic strains by nature but noble at its core.

Its main and dinstinctive characteristic is the one of a very well crafted wine because of a series of important details, such as: Grapes harvested at its highest levels of ripe. vinified using the most modern oenology techniques now a day, and finally a storage using the most noble woods, which along the centuries have aged the best wines of the old world and later the wines in Hispanic America.

In the end, it comes down to a wine that is smooth but of strong alcohol, aromatic, intense, elegant and different from what we know about the normal behaviour of these strains individually, which mixed ends creating a unique, epic and well obtained blend that is indeed Rescate’s main essence. The best of centuries of the history of the ancient grapes and the passion for wine.

PAIRING

A perfect mixture of sensations to acompany a first-course dish and all kinds of cheeses and ham.

It is ideal for white grilled meats and highly recommended for massive meetings where conversation will be an important part of the pairing.

Because of the strong tannins of the strains that are part of the wine, it is recomended to keep it under temperatures between 68 °F and 71.6 °F and to use a decanter at least 20 minutes before serving it. All of this is done to highlight even more the secundary aromas that will make of this a very pleasant experience.

Technical Analysis

Ph : 3,45
Alcohol strength : 14,5 % vol.
Total acidity (in tartaric acid) : 4,95 g/l
Residual sugar : 3,85 g/l

Aging potential

5 years under suitable temperature and moisture conditions