In Bond Fine Wine. 2024 Eduardo Chadwick Sena, Ocoa, Aconcagua, Chile. Red chile - red in 6x75cl. Drinking window: 2025+. 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 emphasis on Mediterranean varieties alongside Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon. Vibrant, fresh and beautifully refined, it offers much of Seña’s precision and pedigree at a considerably more accessible price.
James Suckling (JS) — 98/100 · JamesSuckling.com · Drink 2025+
Seña is often more marked by its blue fruit profile, and this year it goes a bit deeper and darker with its serious depth of fresh blackberries, currants, graphite and a restrained touch of cigar box. Precise and refined, with crunchy fine tannins on the medium- to full-bodied palate and a long, expressive finish carrying the juicy fruit to the end. A later harvest from April 5 to the end of Apri…
Joaquin Hidalgo (JHi) — 96/100 · Vinous.com · Drink 2026 - 2045
The 2024 Seña (60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Carménère, 18% Malbec, 6% Petit Verdot) shows a balsamic profile marked by boldo, notes of native forest, black fruit, ripe plum and delicate spice. The palate has structure, with grippy tannins and a certain juiciness. The style aligns closely with the estate's Chilean profile, while the notably lower alcohol level (13.1%) lends balance and precision.
Matthew Luczy (MLu) — 97/100 · Wine Advocate, RoberParker.com · Drink 2028 - 2044
The 2024 Seña continues the excellence that the entire Errázuriz range exhibits in this vintage, offering a graceful, effortless and underrated expression of Aconcagua. A rich bouquet of dark fruits, fresh herbs and floral notes is brightened by a streak of rising camphor and sweet mint flourishes, introducing a suave, tense and seamless mouthfeel with classical proportions. Ultra-fine tannins an…