On the Road with the Grape Guy
Report from - Montgras Properties Lunch ... March 21, 2011
29 May 2011- Details
- Category: On the Road with the Grape Guy
Montgras is a name you may have heard, and if not, maybe you’ve seen one of their other properties names adorning a bottle of wine. Montgras was established in 1992 and since then has added 3 other distinct properties/labels throughout Chile. Montgras started in the Colchagua Valley then picked up vineyards in Leyda, Maipo and decided to go up in-them-thar-hills in their own backyard with the addition of their Ninquen property (1600ft above sea level) in the Colchague Valley.
Today, we had lunch at Far Niente restaurant and tasted thru 6 different wines (at least one from each property) with head winemaker Santiago Margozzini (or as some of us prefer to call him “Magazine”). From the Amaral property (in Leyda), home to crisp whites to Ninquen, Montgras and Intriga (in the Maipo) there was not a stinker in the bunch; but of course there are wines that are just more “wow” than others … here are my top three wines.
(see which were my top 3 wines, plus see pictures of lunch and other stuff, click here)
