Terranoble, Gran Reserva Carmenere, Maule Valley
Terranoble · Central Valley › Maule Valley › Chile
Critics Average score from professional wine critics and publications.
89
/100
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22
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96
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Taster #8384
· Dec 24, 2024
Lots of jammy fruit and oak. Maybe too much oak for my taste
2018 vintage
Taster #3402
· Apr 15, 2023
93/100
Sehr schöner, typischer Carmenère. Nicht die grosse Komplexität und Feinheit, aber solid.
2018 vintage
Taster #8384
· Dec 31, 2022
Fruit and vanilla. Nicely balanced
2018 vintage
Taster #4151
· Feb 8, 2022
96/100
Love this wine has a great taste
2018 vintage
Taster #0453
· Sep 7, 2021
84/100
Jammy and mild. Easy drinking.
2018 vintage
Taster #4887
· Mar 17, 2020
Don't remember anything about this one at all so I assume it was nothing special.
2011 vintage
Taster #8052
· Feb 10, 2019
Pretty good although not (yet) as interesting as the 2014 version since more fruit-forward and less earthy, very good for $16.
2015 vintage
Taster #2839
· Dec 25, 2016
87/100
Drank with beef tenderloin Xmas Day dinner. Fruit and earth on the nose. Balanced palate of fruit, earth, tobacco, and acidity with a lingering finish. There was a little funk when first opened but it mellowed after about 45 minutes.
2011 vintage
Taster #4029
· May 23, 2016
80/100
Enjoyed this distinctively carmenere until it gave out a terrible headache. The boiled peas nose is memorable and quite pleasant. Too bad I won't ever want to touch this again given the headache.
2011 vintage
Taster #6614
· Mar 16, 2016
88/100
Drank over 3 days. Best on night 2 after some air. Significant funk, tar, and burnt rubber. Dark cherry cough drops. Medium to full bodied. Smooth tannins. Overall interesting wine but the wife didn't like the funkiness.
2011 vintage
Taster #7500
· Feb 26, 2016
89/100
Excellent value at $14.37/bottle at Le Matin in Lexington. On the second day, it showed distinct flavors of Luden's cherry cough drops, along with bell pepper, blackcurrant, coffee, and the other flavors one expects from a Chilean Carmenere. Good stuff.
2011 vintage
Taster #7479
· Feb 11, 2016
Drank over 4 days. Dark purple color. Cherry cough syrup and oak on the first day. Mellowed out with more toasty oak arriving on consecutive days. By the third day the wine was balanced, medium body with a strong fruit component and plenty of oak. Some black pepper elements eventually emerged from the Carmenere. Not my style, but I can imagine this appealing to a lot of consumers.
2011 vintage
Taster #7500
· Feb 5, 2016
91/100
Delicious, with flavors and aromas of bell pepper, french roast coffee, and axle grease/cosmoline (in a good way!), wrapped around mixed black fruits (mostly black plum, I think), finishing with delicate floral nuances. This wine cost me $15 after tax, and drinks at a much higher price point. Worth a bulk purchase. Edit: I need to bump up the score a bit. With air, more fruit is emerging, along with some sweet Indian spices. Man this stuff is good.
2011 vintage
Taster #7920
· Jan 25, 2016
90/100
This wine is peaking right now. Kresolution nailed the tasting notes. Nice backbone of acidity keeps it fresh. Recommend chilling slightly and open bottle 1 hr before serving.
2011 vintage
Taster #1758
· Jan 6, 2016
91/100
Dark color. Coffee, beef, green bell pepper, and a hint of blueberries on the nose. Beautiful! Dark fruit, green pepper, a hint of spice and cedar. Gorgeous smooth tannins with long finish. Showing great right now. Bravo.
2011 vintage
Taster #0621
· Nov 29, 2015
90/100
Blackberry and raspberry notes with a hint of green pepper. Very smooth. Firm tannins. Great value for the price.
2011 vintage
Taster #2069
· Nov 12, 2015
88/100
Good structure, nicely mellowed fruit (relatively) and decent acid. Bell peppers, black pepper and coffee
2011 vintage
Taster #5991
· Nov 4, 2015
The last of a few bottles that I bought awhile back. I wish that I had more. It seems to have really hit its stride now. Smooth, with good depth, purity of fruit. A very nice Carmenere.
2011 vintage
Taster #3557
· Aug 20, 2015
89/100
Must breathe for full flavor. Full bouquet, berry and spicy. Great tannins.
2011 vintage
Taster #0826
· Jul 19, 2015
We drank this at the family reunion on Lake Michigan. I liked it and found it fruity but not jammy. This was my first Carmémère in a while. Chile does it well. Rated 91 by Wine Spectator. $14.
2011 vintage
Taster #6833
· Jul 18, 2015
89/100
A nose astonishingly similar to coffee. Still an interesting wine but the fruit has sadly drained at this point. I'm still finding the earthy/bell pepper thing, some prune and meat, acidity, an incredibly long finish. What verve. This is an exciting and fascinating bottle of wine.
2011 vintage
Taster #7698
· Jul 6, 2015
85/100
Couleur ruby, intensité moyenne. Nez de fruits rouges. En bouche, belle acidité mais équilibre harmonieux. Bon rapport qualité prix.
2011 vintage
Taster #8782
· Jun 30, 2015
86/100
A disappointing if not altogether unpleasant Carménère, this shallow Gran Reserva opens with Cab-like cassis and other deep purple fruit before turning more Syrah-like, in a rather uninviting way, with meat, earth, and black pepper. It tastes quite a bit better than it smells, with characteristic green pepper and herbal notes adding belated complexity, but even then it doesn't have all that much to recommend it.
2011 vintage
Taster #5958
· May 9, 2015
90/100
Young, acidic and tannic at first but once it was allowed to breathe it opened up showed notes black fruits and pepper. For the money this is a great value. Can be aged for at least a few more years.
2011 vintage
Taster #1607
· May 8, 2015
88/100
Extremely deep, dark, heavy, and full-bodied. Flavors of plum and black cherries. Not for the faint of heart, but quite a journey.
2011 vintage
Taster #8283
· Apr 24, 2015
88/100
Cherries, pepper, mint, smooth in the mouth, middle body. Great value for the price. I definitely buy it again.
2011 vintage
Taster #3026
· Apr 17, 2015
88/100
Different. Smells exactly like coffee at first, blew off after couple hours. Big, spicy, dry.
2011 vintage
Taster #5925
· Apr 3, 2015
Deep blackberry with an earthy and sulphur notes. Beautiful complex and rounded spice on the back palate. Great value in a wine and impressive complexity.
2011 vintage
Taster #6833
· Apr 1, 2015
90/100
Fascinating wine, and a very strong bargain in PA at $12.99. Richly colored, lots of smoke and tar, green pepper, coffee, dark fruits (esp. blackberry). Bright acidity. I think a very good wine and deserving of high marks at this price.
2011 vintage
Taster #4585
· Mar 28, 2015
92/100
Nose: big and rich with ripe black fruits (plum, blackberry, currant), but also dried fig, dates and molasses. Vanilla, cedar wood chips, and sweetgrass. Little bit of violet on the undertone. Very attractive nose. Taste: dry, medium body, rich ripe fruits without being juicy or jammy: black currant, blackberry, plum and figs. Tannins are subtle and rich, with a very silky and lengthy finish. Texture is creamy and has good depth and structure. Mid palate brings vanilla, creme brûlée, and …
2011 vintage
Taster #1145
· Mar 23, 2015
Blind tasted. Burned earth, fresh pine, red currants, spicy blackberry. I said Chilean Cab, most got Carmenere right.
2011 vintage