Sibaris Carménère Gran Reserva

Club de Amantes del Vino Guía Mesa de Cata, 2026

2023 -

Club de Amantes del Vino Guía Mesa de Cata, 2025

2022 -

Daenna Van Mulligen, winescores.ca, Nov/2020

2020 -

"A succulent red, the Sibaris doles out grilled bell pepper, bayleaf, rosemary and salted licorice flavours underscored by carob, chives, espresso, black chocolate and black plums. It has notable weight and savoury, spiced meat, herbal and salted flavours layered with wild berries and coffee flavours. Fresh and persistent, a wine for grilled foods and hearty winter dishes."

Gismondi on Wine, Mar/2023

2020 -

"This wine continues to improve with an enticing plummy savoury nose followed by a swath of lush dark fruit and a spicy, peppery undercurrent. Treve calls this smoked bay leaf on a bed of pipe tobacco, and that nails it. The tannins are fully dispersed, and the sweet fruit balances the final green kick that is carmenere. Corn and beef empanadas in Chile are a good match. Further north, beef tacos would do the trick equally well."

Gismondi on Wine, Apr/2022

2019 -

"Full, plumped and lush, this carménère floods the mouth with gobs of dusky wild plum, sweetly ripe cassis, kirsch, and smoked bay leaf, on a bed of pipe tobacco and dark chocolate. Tannins are near negligible, and acidity is enough to pull this through a warming cinnamon bark finish. The sweet density removes any sense of bitter greenness often seen in entry level Chilean carménère."

Daenna Van Mulligen, winescores.ca, Oct/2020

2018 -

"Succulent, substance, spicy. Cedar chips, currents, baking spices and roasted herbal aromas are woven with bay leaf and green olives, red bell peppers and Szechuan peppercorns. The palate is just as succulent; black and red wildberries, bitter chocolate, espresso and toasted spice flavours line the palate. It's a meaty wine with weight, balance and substance."

International Wine & Spirit Competition 2020

2018 -

One of the World's best Carmenere from Chile "Great textured, elegant wine featuring dark blackcurrant fruits and a savoury mushroom, meaty character. The palate is rich and concentrated, well-integrated with grippy tannins. Long and refined."

Gismondi on Wine, Dec/2020

2018 -

"From Colchagua, a classic carmenere with a peppery, crushed leaf nose with hints of dill and roasted onions. The attack is fresh with red cherry dusted in smoke and cedar, with medium soft tannins and a smoky, crushed dried leaf aftertaste. Love it or hate it, it is carmenere, and best with barbecue fare."

Daenna Van Mulligen, winescores.ca, Nov/2019

2017 -

"Succulent, silky, spicy. A succulent wine offering aromas of bay leaf and green olives, black currents and cherries with toasted spices and Szechuan peppercorns. Oodles of ripe purple fruit, mocha and wild herb flavours line the palate. Silky and fresh with good length trailing flavours of tomato leaf."

Decanter World Wine Awards 2018

2016 -

Bronze Medal "Minty, blackcurrant aromas. Easy-going palate with red and black fruit, and a sappy, fresh finish."

International Wine Challenge 2018

2016 -

Bronze Medal "Fragrant with red currant, leaf, toasty oak nose. Plums mid palate with snippy mid palate."

Decanter Magazine, Dec/2018

2016 -

"An attractive nose of rich, dark fruit and dark chocolate which controls the palate too, but is lifted up by a refreshing streak of acidity."

Wine Enthusiast, Oct/2018

2015 -

"This wine boasts green, minty aromas on the nose, with plum, tomato and herbs. A choppy palate lacks stuffing, tasting of herbal berry fruits and green tea. A minty, chocolaty finish wraps things up."

Decanter World Wine Awards 2017

2014 -

"Wonderful lifted floral aromatics. On the palate it’s fresh, has sweet plum and blackcurrant with elegant and refined tannins. Exuberant."

David Lawrason, Wine Align, Feb/2017

2014 -

"This has a lifted, almost piercing nose of red and blackcurrant fruit, carrotene, juniper/ thyme herbaceousness and graphite. Quite complex. It’s full bodied, dense yet streamlined with vibrant acidity, some tannic grit and alcohol warmth. Comes together well. The length and focus are excellent. A keeper. Best 2018 to 2023. Tasted February 2017"

International Wine & Spirits Competition 2015

2013 -

Gold Medal and BEST CARMENERE IN SHOW TROPHY. "Deep red colour with a tiny orange rim. Crushed red berries with splashes of cassis and dried flowers/herbs on the nose. In the mouth the spice notes interact with the very forward fruit. There is a layer of earthy minerality, also smoky incense-like nuances, so the wine displays lifted high toned fruit with complex depths in a broad succulent palate."

Wine Enthusiast, Aug/2016

2013 -

"Hard, rubbery blackberry and black-currant flavors are herbal but settle with airing. This feels round, fresh and fair. Flavors of spiced plum, blackberry, carob and generic spices finish dark and foresty, with good overall balance."