Carignan Old-Vines 'Vigno' 2013 Bodega Alcance, Maule Valley, Chile

The seeds for Alcance were planted back in the early 1990s in Chile’s then unknown Maule region. 

Alcance is a member of Vigno (Vignadores del Carignan), a group of growers working together to rescue and promote the heritage of old, dry-farmed carignan vines in Maule. This wine comes from Cauquenes, where it grows in granitic soils. It’s an extracted, voluptuous take on the grape, with smoky notes of oak crowding into the midst of all the ripe red fruit, exotic spice and scents of fresh flowers. It is rustic and delicious, needing roasted lamb to match its tremendous power, or time in your cellar to tame it.    trade