{"id":6987,"date":"2013-03-27T20:27:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T20:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=6987"},"modified":"2013-03-27T20:29:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T20:29:54","slug":"tunquen-impressive-boutique-winery-from-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/chile\/tunquen-impressive-boutique-winery-from-chile","title":{"rendered":"Tunquen: impressive boutique winery from Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1011690.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6999\" title=\"tunquen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1011690.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1011690.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1011690-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1011690-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1011690-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At last! I have found something high-end and exciting from Chile, after a string of near misses and disappointments.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a new-ish boutique winery, Tunquen. You can find their website <a href=\"http:\/\/tunquenwines.wordpress.com\/\"> here<\/a>. These wines had something different to most Chilean wines, and I really liked them.\u00a0The winegrowers here are clearly aiming at elegance, avoiding over-extraction, and keeping the oak toned down. It works: it is just too easy to over-extract in Chile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tunquen Cabernet Franc 2011 Casablanca Valley, Chile<\/strong><br \/>\nWild yeast ferments, aged in older French oak. Fantastic perfume of cherries and sweet raspberry and strawberry fruit, with some green leafy notes. The palate is supple, ripe and smooth with some fine, spicy, tea-leaf characters. Quite mineral. Sweet but fine. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tunquen Malbec 2011 Casablanca Valley, Chile<\/strong><br \/>\nWild yeasts, old oak. Lovely complex, aromatic nose of fresh cherry fruit with herbs and pepper spice. Supple palate has sappy green notes, black cherry, raspberries. Expressive and fine with complex peppery, spicy notes as well as supple fruit. 93\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tunquen Pinot Noir 2011 Casablanca Valley, Chile<\/strong><br \/>\nLovely aromatics of sweet cherries and plums with some liqueur-like richness. The palate is ripe and juicy with lovely fruity character and some sweetness of texture. Pure,\u00a0supple and lively with real interest and some finesse. 92\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find these wines with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last! I have found something high-end and exciting from Chile, after a string of near misses and disappointments. It&#8217;s a new-ish boutique winery, Tunquen. You can find their website&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[148,385],"class_list":["post-6987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chile","tag-casablanca","tag-chile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7001,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions\/7001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}