Clos Apalta 2022
Apalta
Chile, Chile
Regular price£465.00
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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: 2035 |
| Grapes: 68% Carmenère, 22% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot | |
Critic scores
95 RP, 98 VM, 99 JS, 99 JD, 97+ DB
Critic reviews
"A particularly pretty and floral expression of Clos Apalta, the 2022 Clos Apalta is beautifully lush and expressive on the nose, combining a deep core of black and blue fruit aromas with pencil lead, camphor and bramble accents, developing dried purple flower notes that continue to gain volume with aeration. The palate displays the house's quintessentially lavish yet graceful style before concluding with a long, staining, and saturated finish that blends sweet fruits with a toasty, oak-driven backbone, polished tannins and bright acidity. As always, this is quite a stylized expression of Apalta but one that retains a sense of nuance. This blend of 68% Carménère, 22% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Merlot fermented and aged in a mix of barrique, puncheon and large cask."
Matthew Luczy, August 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Clos Apalta is 68% Carménère, 22% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Merlot from Apalta. This aged primarily in French oak vats with 10% of the blend in 225-liter Bordeaux barrels. It opens with black fruit, a delicate ash note, underbrush, boldo and gentle spice over subtle oak. Blueberry, blackberry and sour cherry aromas complete the aromatic profile. On the palate, this is dry for the house style, with medium structure, refined grip and juicy flow. The finish is long and finely tuned. This vintage offers a more restrained version of Clos Apalta. It's less opulent than usual but with captivating nuance and poise. The 2022 is a terroir-driven response to a cooler year."
Joaquin Hidalgo, July 2025, Vinous.com
"The carmenere character is more obvious and confidently transparent this year, but in a really complex and layered way. Cedar, black olives, graphite, paprika and hints of pepper and iodine. It’s well rounded, with a light sanguine note to the ripe fruit. The tannins are fine-grained yet polished. The lengthy finish doesn't want to stop. 68% carmenere, 22% cabernet sauvignon and 10% merlot. Drink from 2027."
Zekun Shuai, April 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"The Grand Vin 2022 Clos Apalta checks in as 68% Carménère, 23% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Merlot that spent two years in 70% new French oak. Smoking notes of black raspberries, leafy herbs, iron, and violet carry to a brilliantly balanced, seamless, medium to full-bodied red that has ultra-fine tannins, integrated acidity, and a great finish. It's an absolutely sensational red from this team that comes close to topping out my scale. I love it today yet see no reason it shouldn't evolve for 15+ years."
Jeb Dunnuck, March 2025, JebDunnuck.com
"Deep ruby colour, confident unrolling of cocoa bean, intense liqourice root, espresso, smoked caramel, creamy blackberry fruits, black pepper and baking spice. This has lift and grip, full of life and welcome. 78% new oak for ageing, Andrea Léon technical director, organically farmed."
Jane Anson, July 2025, JaneAnson.com
"(Apalta Valley, Colchagua, Chile; 68% Carménère; 22% Cabernet Sauvignon; 10% Merlot; pH 3.78; 2.7 g/L of residual sugar; 15% alcohol; aged for 21 months in 78% new and 22% two-year old French oak barrels; tasted at the CVBG press tasting over Zoom with Andrea Leon, technical director). From early harvested hillside plots. Gorgeous. Inky. Plummy. Blue fruits. Such plump and gracious tannins, giving this greater purity and mid-palate crystallinity than Le Petit Clos. There’s a gorgeous signature Carménère spice too. Wild herbs. I love the cedary notes present already; and the scratchings of graphite. Walnut oil and first press olive oil. The oak is well-integrated already but it is present and used confidently. This is ample, full, plump and layered, the tannins incredibly refined. Succulent and juicy. A little black currant and cassis. Very long. Gently tapering on the finish, but with just a little hint of dryness. A wine with considerable aging potential that is flattering on the attack but showing its seriousness on the saline, mineral-encrusted finish. 97+"
Colin Hay, August 2025, DrinksBusiness.com
Matthew Luczy, August 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Clos Apalta is 68% Carménère, 22% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Merlot from Apalta. This aged primarily in French oak vats with 10% of the blend in 225-liter Bordeaux barrels. It opens with black fruit, a delicate ash note, underbrush, boldo and gentle spice over subtle oak. Blueberry, blackberry and sour cherry aromas complete the aromatic profile. On the palate, this is dry for the house style, with medium structure, refined grip and juicy flow. The finish is long and finely tuned. This vintage offers a more restrained version of Clos Apalta. It's less opulent than usual but with captivating nuance and poise. The 2022 is a terroir-driven response to a cooler year."
Joaquin Hidalgo, July 2025, Vinous.com
"The carmenere character is more obvious and confidently transparent this year, but in a really complex and layered way. Cedar, black olives, graphite, paprika and hints of pepper and iodine. It’s well rounded, with a light sanguine note to the ripe fruit. The tannins are fine-grained yet polished. The lengthy finish doesn't want to stop. 68% carmenere, 22% cabernet sauvignon and 10% merlot. Drink from 2027."
Zekun Shuai, April 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"The Grand Vin 2022 Clos Apalta checks in as 68% Carménère, 23% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Merlot that spent two years in 70% new French oak. Smoking notes of black raspberries, leafy herbs, iron, and violet carry to a brilliantly balanced, seamless, medium to full-bodied red that has ultra-fine tannins, integrated acidity, and a great finish. It's an absolutely sensational red from this team that comes close to topping out my scale. I love it today yet see no reason it shouldn't evolve for 15+ years."
Jeb Dunnuck, March 2025, JebDunnuck.com
"Deep ruby colour, confident unrolling of cocoa bean, intense liqourice root, espresso, smoked caramel, creamy blackberry fruits, black pepper and baking spice. This has lift and grip, full of life and welcome. 78% new oak for ageing, Andrea Léon technical director, organically farmed."
Jane Anson, July 2025, JaneAnson.com
"(Apalta Valley, Colchagua, Chile; 68% Carménère; 22% Cabernet Sauvignon; 10% Merlot; pH 3.78; 2.7 g/L of residual sugar; 15% alcohol; aged for 21 months in 78% new and 22% two-year old French oak barrels; tasted at the CVBG press tasting over Zoom with Andrea Leon, technical director). From early harvested hillside plots. Gorgeous. Inky. Plummy. Blue fruits. Such plump and gracious tannins, giving this greater purity and mid-palate crystallinity than Le Petit Clos. There’s a gorgeous signature Carménère spice too. Wild herbs. I love the cedary notes present already; and the scratchings of graphite. Walnut oil and first press olive oil. The oak is well-integrated already but it is present and used confidently. This is ample, full, plump and layered, the tannins incredibly refined. Succulent and juicy. A little black currant and cassis. Very long. Gently tapering on the finish, but with just a little hint of dryness. A wine with considerable aging potential that is flattering on the attack but showing its seriousness on the saline, mineral-encrusted finish. 97+"
Colin Hay, August 2025, DrinksBusiness.com