Primus The Blend 2013 Wine Review

Primus The Blend 2013

Colchagua Valley, Chile

Community Score:90/100

Community Reviews: 4

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Price: $19.95

Drink: 2015-2019

Bottle size: 750 ml

Alcohol: 14.5%

Sweetness: Dry

Wine Type: Red Wine

Winery: Primus

Agent: Rogers & Company

Natalie's Score: 89/100

Chocolate and mocha from oak aging with some sweet blackberry flavours. Pair with hamburgers and relish. This full-bodied Chilean red wine is just dripping with fleshy berry flavor and plums with some real vibrancy and lift on the mid-palate. This wine is a blend of about a third cabernet sauvignon, a third syrah, and the balance split between merlot and carmenere grapes. Superb craftsmanship; great value. Judicious use of oak has a toasty weave throughout the wine. Balanced acidity and polished tannins, but the dark fruit power and energy leads in the glass. Pair with prime rib.

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This Primus The Blend 2013 was reviewed on March 19, 2016 by Natalie MacLean

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712463
$19.95
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505958
$19.80
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10694501
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4223
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Reviews and Ratings

Jane Staples - Certified Sommelier rated this wine as 90/100 with the following review:

From Chile's Colchagua Valley, a dry red layered blend of Carmenere 35%, Cab Sauv 25%, Syrah 25%, with small amounts of Petit Verdot, Cab Franc and Merlot. Shows an aromatic nose of ripe red berries with a delicious fruity palate with secondary vanilla, spice and pepper notes, full-bodied and well-balanced.

Heather Wall - CS; WSET Advanced rated this wine as 90/100 with the following review:

Good value as it hits that magic $20 price point. Deep ruby colour with intense cherry, chocolate and coffee first whiff! For me the secondary aromas were a little greener with bell pepper and blackcurrant leaf followed by fresh raspberry, cassis and toast. On the palate the wine is dry, full-bodied, smooth and has a lingering cherry vanilla finish. Worth a try at this price. Pair with a sea salted steak on the BBQ.
Tasted: February 2016

Produced by the Chilean winery Veramonte, this is a red wine blend of 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Carmenere, 25% Syrah, 2% Merlot, 3% Cabernet France and 6% Petit Verdot grapes grown in Alto Casablanca. Finishes with tart blackberry and spice. Good balance and structure. polished tannins. - Community Wine Reviews

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Primus The Blend 2013 Wine Review

Natalie's Score: 89/100

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