Description

In 2004 Alex and Carrie Vik started a two year quest to find the best terroir in South America they settled in Millahue in the Cachapoal Valley south west of Santiago. Buying 4,300 hectares of wilderness spread over 12 valleys where they planted 327 hectares of vines.

A multitude of microclimates and terroirs give real complexity and the cooling influence from winds funnelled in from the coast and down from the Andes give balance.

Chief Winemaker Cristian Vallejo, ex of Chateau Margaux oversees VIK’s viticulture and viniculture, the mind blowing VIK 2019, rightly rated as one of Chile’s top reds, is a blend of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Cabernet Franc, aged for 26 months in a combination of used barrels, recycled barrels and ‘barroir’, French barrel toasted with oak foraged from their own forests, they hope to make barrels from their own oak trees in time.

This leaps from the glass with an impressive powerful nose, with an equally impressive, powerful and mouth filling palate of deep dark black fruits and berries with toasty oak which could put a good Pauillac to shame.