This wine is very well made - 2007 Vina Chocalan, Carmenere from Maipo, Chile

We drank this wine with the simple dish of seared chicken, rice and green beans.

Very dark purple to almost black in the glass. Full bouquet of green pepper and grass.

Good mouthfeel, medium tannins and full body. Fruit certainly present, but the dominant nose and taste is vegetal. This wine is very well made .. and if you like a more vegetal nuance in the wine, you will like it. If you do not like this component (and my wife is one that does not), you won’t like this wine.

That said, at this price if you have not already tried a carmenere (used to be a blending grape in Bordeaux and was mistaken for a long time for Merlot in Chile), give it a try. This one is a pretty good example.