Almaviva EPU 2020

Almaviva EPU是酒莊所推出的副牌，使用與Almaviva 相同的釀酒葡萄，但釀造出更符合即時飲用的風格，讓許多美酒愛好者能夠在不必等待陳年的辛苦下，品味到傳奇般令人驚喜的滋味。

EPU 展現出典型的草本特性和優雅的口感，結構緊實而出色。酒中散發著黑醋栗、玫瑰和薰衣草的香氣。酒體飽滿而圓潤，單寧飽和，口感鮮美，帶有豐富的辛香料風味，尾韻悠長而清爽。呢款酒散發出濃郁的脂香氣息，口感柔滑而細緻。

Almaviva EPU 係一款令人驚艷的酒款，它承襲了酒莊的精髓，呈現出獨特而精妙的風味。無論是作為享受時光的陪伴，還是作為特別場合的獻禮，呢款酒都能帶來無與倫比的享受。 EPU 在馬普切人的語言中代表「兩個」，馬普切人是智利南部的主要原住民族之一。

EPU 以最具盛名的波爾多的副牌酒為參考，產量極為有限，但卻擁有許多 Almaviva 的獨特特色。

 94 pts  Luiz Gutierrez, Wine Advocate: 

The current release of their second wine is the 2020 Epu. It's selected from the same terroir and vineyard in Puente Alto, one of the most reputed places for Cabernet Sauvignon in Chile, but from the younger vines (five- to 20-year-old vines) and harvested a little earlier to preserve acidity and fruit. In the warm and dry 2020 vintage, the wine was produced with a blend of 81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Carmenere, 5% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc, usually higher in Cabernet and lower in Carmenere than Almaviva. It has red ripe berries, the textbook blackberries and cassis and some creamy oak. It's ripe at 14.8% alcohol and has mellow acidity, good freshness and balance, with a pH of 3.71 and 4.8 grams of acidity (tartaric). It matured for 12 months in French barriques, 10% new and 90% second use. The wine has a bright nose with a clean note of baked "morrón" peppers intermixed with red berry compote. It has a velvety plate with the luxurious texture of the modern Bordeaux, with abundant, slightly dusty tannins. It's approachable and round but should reward some time in bottle. This is a pretty serious Epu. 

 94 pts James Suckling: 

Lots of finely roasted sweet spice and roasted sesame to the blackberries, cassis and iron, together with hints of blue fruit and cured meat. A medium-to full-bodied palate, filled with rather generous sweet berries. Fleshy, supple and savory with quite fine-grained tannins and a long finish. First year with 10% new wood. 81% cabernet sauvignon, 12% carmenere, 5% merlot and 2% cabernet franc. Already delicious, but can hold, too.