Winery - Viu Manent
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Dark and herbal, with solid fruit and texture. This is Merlot from Chile as it should be, meaning it is meaty, ripe, naturally herbal and comfortable. Not a fancy wine, but one with honest cherry, plum, herb and pepper flavors. A little bumpy, hot and oaky, but convincing as a whole. Imported by Baystate Wine Co.
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Viu Manent Merlot - 2006
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The dark color and crusty, wood-based aromas reflect a slathering of oak that comes across sort of lemony, but there’s no denying that this Cab has body, tannin and heft. It’s a little burnt and heavy on the nose and palate, but black fruit and brown sugar flavors give it enough richness to bring it up a notch.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This single-vineyard Malbec may come from a young vineyard (planted in 2000), but it’s still dark, concentrated and masculine. Purple in color, with thick, grapey aromas that lead to lush blackberry, cola and chocolate flavors. Rich, deep and well developed for Chilean Malbec.
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Viu Manent Malbec - 2007
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
All of Viu Manent’s single-vineyard wines have the right stuff. This one starts out staunch and concentrated before it unfolds with inky, black-fruit aromas, warm earth and saturated blackberry and spice flavors. Ripe, rich and meaty. A prime New World Syrah with teeth and character. Drink now through 2012.
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Viu Manent Syrah - 2007
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Opens with sweet, candied fruit and herb aromas. The palate is aggressive and fairly tannic, while the palate rattles about with herbal wild berry, coffee and burnt flavors. Definitely lively and forward, but also rough and slightly drying and bitter on the finish.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Leathery and gaseous at first, with murky earth, scrambled egg, sulfur and ultimately spicy fruit and grilled beef aromas. The palate is full and choppy, with thick, soupy black fruit and herbal flavors. Creamy on the finish. Good but simple Syrah.
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Viu Manent Syrah - 2008
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Seemingly more oily, rich and waxy than the 2007, with woody elements and sweet but bland cantaloupe-driven flavors. There’s a light essence of citrus, but overall it’s plump, melony and at or already past its prime. Drink immediately.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Aromas of popcorn kernel, butter, petrol and oil don’t work well, and despite the wine’s flush, mostly balanced mouthfeel, it also doesn’t deliver much in the way of flavor; the palate tastes burnt and bitter, with deadpan fruit. As fans of Viu Manent’s wines, especially the winery’s reds, we can dismiss this one as a swing and a miss.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A little funky and sweaty, but definitely a live-wire white with tons of lime, kiwi, citrus and grapefruit flavors. It has good mouthfeel and acidity, and then long, powerful green notes to the finish. Not run-of-the-mill; it’s a bit wild and out there.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Quite charred and hard, which is something I can’t remember in tasting VM’s wines for the past decade. It’s also plummy and thick, with a flat palate that doesn’t register on the mouthfeel meter. Flavors of black fruits are lemony from the oak and generic, while the finish is round and basic.
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Viu Manent Malbec - 2008
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