Le Petit Clos 2022
Apalta
Chile, Chile
Regular price£162.00
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Arriving: Late 2025
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: % | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2022 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2032 |
| Grapes: 59% Carmenère, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot | |
Critic scores
93 RP, 94 VM, 96 JS, 93 JD, 93 DC, 95 DB
Critic reviews
"The 2022 Le Petit Clos is expressive, floral and lush on the nose, combining dried herbs, menthol, purple flowers and dark fruit aromas with poise, restraint and increasing energy as it spends time in the glass. The palate is rich yet contained and elegant, smoothly transitioning into a composed finish that balances a luscious, sweet core of dark fruits with refined tannins and graphite undertones. This is a blend of 59% Carménère, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot."
Matthew Luczy, August 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Le Petit Clos is composed of 59% Carménère, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot from Apalta. It opens with black fruit aromas of blackberry and ripe plum, followed by hints of spice and ash. Oak and camphor emerge in the background. Broad and flavorful, with well-managed grip and juicy texture, this finishes with herbal nuances and lingering pyrazines. A cool year brought agility and lift, which shape the long, rich finish."
Joaquin Hidalgo, July 2025, Vinous.com
"A deep, complex nose with multiple layers of graphite, dark olives, blackberries and dark chocolate. Really fine-grained, powdery tannins with ripe and juicy fruit. A touch of pepper at the end, followed by a lengthy finish. Fresh and slightly opulent. 59% carmenere, 33% cabernet sauvignon, 5% merlot and 3% petit verdot. Drink or hold."
Zekun Shuai, April 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"Fragranced purple flowers with hints of fig, plum and black cherry. Just wonderful aromas of dark fruit - but so precise with great clarity - cool and ripe tones on the nose. So silky smooth, bright and forward. Juicy and crystalline, red summery berry notes alongside sweet spices, liquorice and espresso with bitter black chocolate and garrigue herbality. So pleasing. Still relatively tightly coiled but increases in width with time in the glass. Wonderfully finessed with plenty of underlying power. Slightly powdery tannins on the finish. Layered and charming. Great freshness that leaves you wanting more with a lively and long finish. Black cherry, juicy blueberry - fruit forward and easy to drink but not lacking in character of complexity. 5% Petit Verdot completes the blend. 3.71pH. 18 months in 42% new oak, 58% two year old fresh oak 225l barrels. Cooler and drier conditions than in 2021 with lots of sun and light and excellent sanitary conditions although 35% lower yields. Technical director Andrea Léon."
Georgina Hindle, July 2025, Decanter.com
"(Apalta Valley, Colchagua, Chile; 59% Carménère; 33% Cabernet Sauvignon; 5% Merlot; 3% Petit Verdot; 2.7 g/L of residual sugar; pH 3.71; 14.5% alcohol; around 50% new oak; tasted at the CVBG press tasting over Zoom with Andrea Leon, technical director). A sunny and yet somewhat cooler vintage, throughout the ripening period after a very cold winter. The long hang time is the key to the character of the wine. Phenolic ripeness and a crunchy freshness to the fruit. Much more intense, more lifted and if anything more vertical too, though initially a little more closed and serious than the Prélude 2023. Fine, yet dense, intense and concentrated aromatically. This is much more floral too with that gorgeous Carménère signature – gladioli, hyacinth and wild garrigue herbal notes. Black cherry and a little blueberry and mulberry. White and pink peppercorns. The oak is nicely integrated. More ample in frame and with significant layering, the considerable tannins delineating each individual stratum. Granitic, almost gritty tannins. A wine that is very poised and gathered on the finish, with the final pinch of the tannins releasing a sapid juiciness. But just a little dry and grainy."
Colin Hay, August 2025, DrinksBusiness.com
Matthew Luczy, August 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Le Petit Clos is composed of 59% Carménère, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot from Apalta. It opens with black fruit aromas of blackberry and ripe plum, followed by hints of spice and ash. Oak and camphor emerge in the background. Broad and flavorful, with well-managed grip and juicy texture, this finishes with herbal nuances and lingering pyrazines. A cool year brought agility and lift, which shape the long, rich finish."
Joaquin Hidalgo, July 2025, Vinous.com
"A deep, complex nose with multiple layers of graphite, dark olives, blackberries and dark chocolate. Really fine-grained, powdery tannins with ripe and juicy fruit. A touch of pepper at the end, followed by a lengthy finish. Fresh and slightly opulent. 59% carmenere, 33% cabernet sauvignon, 5% merlot and 3% petit verdot. Drink or hold."
Zekun Shuai, April 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"Fragranced purple flowers with hints of fig, plum and black cherry. Just wonderful aromas of dark fruit - but so precise with great clarity - cool and ripe tones on the nose. So silky smooth, bright and forward. Juicy and crystalline, red summery berry notes alongside sweet spices, liquorice and espresso with bitter black chocolate and garrigue herbality. So pleasing. Still relatively tightly coiled but increases in width with time in the glass. Wonderfully finessed with plenty of underlying power. Slightly powdery tannins on the finish. Layered and charming. Great freshness that leaves you wanting more with a lively and long finish. Black cherry, juicy blueberry - fruit forward and easy to drink but not lacking in character of complexity. 5% Petit Verdot completes the blend. 3.71pH. 18 months in 42% new oak, 58% two year old fresh oak 225l barrels. Cooler and drier conditions than in 2021 with lots of sun and light and excellent sanitary conditions although 35% lower yields. Technical director Andrea Léon."
Georgina Hindle, July 2025, Decanter.com
"(Apalta Valley, Colchagua, Chile; 59% Carménère; 33% Cabernet Sauvignon; 5% Merlot; 3% Petit Verdot; 2.7 g/L of residual sugar; pH 3.71; 14.5% alcohol; around 50% new oak; tasted at the CVBG press tasting over Zoom with Andrea Leon, technical director). A sunny and yet somewhat cooler vintage, throughout the ripening period after a very cold winter. The long hang time is the key to the character of the wine. Phenolic ripeness and a crunchy freshness to the fruit. Much more intense, more lifted and if anything more vertical too, though initially a little more closed and serious than the Prélude 2023. Fine, yet dense, intense and concentrated aromatically. This is much more floral too with that gorgeous Carménère signature – gladioli, hyacinth and wild garrigue herbal notes. Black cherry and a little blueberry and mulberry. White and pink peppercorns. The oak is nicely integrated. More ample in frame and with significant layering, the considerable tannins delineating each individual stratum. Granitic, almost gritty tannins. A wine that is very poised and gathered on the finish, with the final pinch of the tannins releasing a sapid juiciness. But just a little dry and grainy."
Colin Hay, August 2025, DrinksBusiness.com