2006 Toknar

The 2006 Toknar is pure Petit Verdot planted as a complement to give power to some blends. Later they realized the wine was indeed powerful, dark-colored and had a strong smell of squid ink! So they put the wine in barrel, hoping that smell would disappear. After a long time in new French barrels, more than two years, they put it in bottle and waited a further three years. The result is a dark-colored wine with an equally dark nose of graphite, peat, shoe polish, cassis, blackberries, and black pepper. The oak is really imperceptible with such intensity of fruit. The palate is full-bodied, tight, powerful and concentrated, with high acidity and an even higher concentration of tannins. Mauro Von Siebenthal talks about an extreme, borderline wine. It is indeed a bodybuilder of a wine, which should be capable of living a long life in bottle. If you want to drink it now, try to find a mammoth chop. In case you’re wondering, I could not detect any squid ink aromas. 3,400 bottles were produced. Drink 2016-2026. Mauro Von Siebenthal, a Swiss lawyer from Bern, started a tiny winery in Chile in 1998, buying a small vineyard in the Aconcagua valley three weeks after arriving in the country to visit a friend. Now he owns the biggest winery in the MOVI association. Stefano Gandolini is in charge of winemaking. They own 32 hectares of vineyards, but everything is vinified by vineyard, and things are done at a detailed level, which is impossible in a big winery. They still behave like a small producer, looking at the terroir. Aconcagua produces ripe, powerful wines because there is a lot of sun but at the same time they retain their freshness. Importer: Vine Connections, tel. (415) 332-8466