Tasting Notes

WA94

Santa Rita’s flagship is the Casa Real Cabernet Sauvignon. The 2002 Casa Real is purple colored with complex aromatics of spice box, tobacco, graphite, red currants, and black currants. It has an intense entry onto the palate with spicy, layered flavors, ripe tannins, and great balance in its full-bodied personality. It needs 5-7 years of further cellaring and will drink well through 2037. When I was in Chile in January, the winery also presented the 1999 Casa Real (92 points) and the 2001 Casa Real (94 points). It seems clear that Santa Rita Casa Real is one of Chile’s benchmark wines.

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