Volcanes Tectonia Grenache/Petite Sirah/Mourvèdre

Tasting Note Volcanes Tectonia Grenache/Petite Sirah/Mourvèdre

Complex, expressive nose featuring notes of ripe black cherries, blackberries and strawberry, a hint of smoke, tobacco, minerals, candied fruit, toast, menthol and liquorice. The palate is velvety with lively yet ripe tannins, a firm body, with a very long finish in which cassis predominates. Deep red colour.

Food Pairing

Volcanes Tectonia Grenache/Petite Sirah/Mourvèdre is delicious with grilled meat, red meat, lamb, game and pasta dishes, and mature cheeses.

Other information

The grapes for this wine are blended separately: Grenache from Chacapoal from vineyards with basalt/andesite soils. Petite Sirah from Maipo from clay soils overlying intrusive rock. And the Mourvèdre from Maule from granite soils. The wine matures for 12 months in French oak barrels, 20% of which are new.

Bodega Volcanes is a project started in 2009 and is part of the Grupo Vinos del Pacifico (GVP). A number of employees from this group came up with the idea to create a series of wines sourced from vineyards with 100% volcanic soils.

The five-member team included winemaker María del Pilar Díaz, geologist Gonzalo Hendriguez and Terroir manager Agustín Aguerrea. They selected three vineyards, spread throughout Chile, which they believe convey the ultimate expression of volcanic soil in the wines.

In the Rapel Valley, this is a vineyard with soil consisting of silt, clay and loam supplemented with coarser material such as stones of Andesite (an extrusive rock). In the Maule Valley, they found a vineyard with soil of (weathered) granite. In the Malleco Valley, the vineyard is planted on a soil known as "Tolhuaco", which consists of volcanic ash.

María Díaz strives to express the purity and minerality of the soils in the wines. This is very successful, especially because excessive use of (new) wood is never employed during fermentation and maturation. The wines are all lively and rich and have more complexity in aroma and flavour than comparable wines from the same region.

Wine scores/awards

James Suckling - 93 points (2019)
“Blackberry, dried-sage, lavender andearthy notes. It’s medium-to full-bodiedwith chewy tannins. Ripe, round and dusty with a juicy, pretty finish. A blendof 45% grenache, 40% petite sirah and15% mourvedre. Drink now or hold.”