With this vintage, Purple Angel shows a deep, carmine-red colour, typical of Carmenère. The aromas are complex, with pronounced black fruit, like blackberry and ripe blueberries. There is also dried plum, cooked cherries, and candied fruit. Its 18 months in French oak gives a complex nose of toasted aromas, nuts, sweet spice and touches of dairy and vanilla. On the palate, the flavours follow on from the aromas, with sensations of dark fruit and dairy well balanced with the toast. It is finely balanced, with good body and a long finish.
Ripe berry aromas are supported by notes of coffee, mocha, smouldering charcoal, and baking spices. A flush palate brings the fruit in quantity, while the flavours are all about quality and emphasize blackened, spicy blackberry, mocha, and toast. Given that 2016 was a tough year for red wines in Chile, this is a big success.
The bottle of the 2015 Purple Angel looks like a magnum, but it's only big, like the wine it contains. This is a ripe, heady and generously oaked blend of Carmenere with 8% Petit Verdot that has abundant herbal and spicy aromas and flavors. It matured in brand new French barriques for 18 months. So you can imagine it's going to be quite oaky, and the texture shows some grainy tannins that are going to require some more time in bottle to get polished. It finishes dry, with some astringency.
If you feel like a big, ripe and well-oaked red, the 2014 Purple Angel is for you. It's super-premium Carmenere with some 8% Petit Verdot. Very dark, opaque, brooding and dense, it boasts plenty of balsamic and smoky aromas and a powerful palate with fine-grained, abundant tannins. There are tons of black fruits and spices from the 18 months in spent in brand new French oak barrels
Like the name suggests, this Carmenère is opaque purple in colour, with earthy, complex aromas of graphite, char, and herbal black currant. The palate is, not surprisingly, saturated, and dense. Flavours of toasty, minty black fruits are charred, while the finish tastes roasted, heavily oaked and blackened.
