58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Carménère, 12% Malbec, 10% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot
"The 2013 Seña might very well be their finest vintage to date. 2013 was a cool vintage that favored fresh flavors and elegant and pure wines full of nuances. At Viña Seña, they took advantage of the natural conditions and produced a stunning blend of 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Carménère, 12% Malbec, 10% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, sourced from their 42 hectares of vineyards planted some 16 years ago in the Aconcagua Valley. The varietal mix has been fine tuned and the oak has also been gradually reduced during the last few years. The process was pretty straightforward, fermentation in stainless steel and aging in French oak barrels (75% of them new) for 22 months. It has a subtle nose with aromas of red and black fruit denoting very good freshness, and the classical tobacco and cracked peppercorns, with the oak nicely integrated adding some spices and faint smoky aromas. The red fruit is remarkable and really adds freshness. Linear, juicy, sharp and long, very tasty and with very fine, slightly grainy tannins. There is superb balance, classical proportion and symmetry. I have not tasted all of the vintages of Seña (one day...), but out of all the years I've tried, this is certainly the best. I'm sure this will bloom in bottle and will have a long development. 60,000 bottles were filled." - Robert Parkers Wine Advocate
"Dunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Rauchigwürzig unterlegtes Beerenkonfit, Nuancen von schwarzen Kirschen und Cassis, feine Edelholznoten, tabakiger Touch, facettenreiches Bukett. Komplex und saftig, dunkelbeerig und extraktsüß, präsente, wohlintegrierte, tragende Tannine, gute Frische, stoffiger Abgang, mineralisch." - Falstaff
"(2016) 58% Caberent Sauvignon, 15% Carmenrere, 12% Malbec, 10% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot. 22 months in French oak, 75% new. Such a bold, solid colour. A little less developed obviously, a little tighter, but a similar overall character to the 2011, with that little graphite and floral lift and the very compact, quite muscular dense fruit concentration. Lots of sweetness on the mid palate, a really juicy but luscious black fruit confiture, the tangy acid edge and bittersweetness of cherry and plum skins coming through, finishing with a touch of spice and the juicy fruit, the oak so subtley underpinning." - Tom Canavan
Seña wurde 1995 als Joint Venture zwischen dem Chilenen Eduardo Chadwick und dem Amerikaner Robert Mondavi gegründet. Ihr Ziel war es, einen Wein zu erzeugen, der das gesamte Potenzial Chiles aufzeigt. Nach dem Vorbild des Bordeaux-Stils sollte er eine chilenische Seele haben, mit Trauben, die im Aconcagua-Tal nach biodynamischen Grundsätzen angebaut werden. Ihr Traum war es, einen Wein zu schaffen, der sich mit der Zeit in die Riege der Erstweine der Welt einreihen würde.
