In Bond Fine Wine. 2009 Eduardo Chadwick Sena, Ocoa, Aconcagua, Chile. Red chile - red in 6x75cl. Top critic score: 92/100 (NM). Drinking window: 2014–2036. Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
Seña is one of Chile’s great fine wine estates, created in 1995 by Eduardo Chadwick and Robert Mondavi with the ambition of producing a world-class Chilean wine capable of standing alongside the finest Bordeaux. Its hillside vineyards in the Aconcagua Valley, influenced by both the Andes and Pacific Ocean, produce Cabernet-led wines of remarkable freshness, structure and longevity. Seña’s reputation was cemented at the famous Berlin Tasting of 2004, when the 2001 vintage was rated ahead of Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Latour and Chateau Margaux 2000 in a blind tasting. Today, Seña remains one of South America’s benchmark wines, combining Cabernet Sauvignon with varieties including Carmenere, Malbec and Petit Verdot to create a distinctive expression of its Chilean terroir. The estate also produces the excellent Rocas de Seña, a more approachable sibling that places greater emphasi…
Neal Martin (NM) — 92/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 27/12/2012 · Drink 2014 - 2020
The 2009 Sena has an exuberant bouquet of blackberry, boysenberry, menthol, crushed stone and graphite that is extremely well defined and more feminine than the 2008. The palate is medium-bodied with fine, taut tannins and superb focus. It has a focused, leafy, tobacco infused finish and great length. Excellent.
Jane Anson (JA) — 95/100 · Inside Bordeaux, 2022-03-09 · Drink 2022-2036
Tobacco and cigar box, soft brushed leather, with touches of white pepper spice and white truffle. This was a hot year in Aconcagua, and there are clear tertiary notes here, but it has freshness and power and is a delicious wine. One that makes you smile, and makes you want to share. Stretches out through the palate also, plenty of mineralty on the finish, it sets the pace and it delivers. No nee…
James Suckling (JS) — 95/100 · JamesSuckling.com, 13/08/2014
This is a powerful and structured red with currants, minerals and blackberries. Full and very silky plus has firm tannins and a chewy finish. Stoney. Needs another three years to soften. A beauty.