Luis Felipe Edwards Carménère 2020
- 94
- $7
- Drink by: 2022-2027
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Never heard of Carménère? After a taste of this medium-bodied, gentle red from Chile, you will want to know a lot more about the grape. It’s one of those varieties, originally from Bordeaux, which was in danger of becoming extinct before finding an exciting new life in another country . . . and hemisphere. Expect an immediate friendship here, one that rests on an enticing array of the ripe and the exotic: dried raspberry, black plum, green peppercorn and jalapeño. Carménère is clean and nimble on the palate thanks to a mineral edge which contributes natural balance. Tannins are well-rounded but still offer structure. The palate plays host to a dark chocolatey note, a savoury one, but not aggressively so. All up, this wine has plenty to offer, bringing a different South American New World flavour profile worthy of further exploration. And all of this for just $7.
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Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
