Cuvée Alexandre Cabernet Sauvignon is elegant and expressive with intense aromas of ripe fruit, fresh cherry, black currant, and light toast. It boasts a velvety palate with persistent tannins and a lingering finish. It is a unique wine true to its origin, a classic expression of Cabernet Sauvignon.
Drink Cuvée Alexandre Cabernet Sauvignon now with an herb braised lamb shank or a pork chop with mustard and honey, or cellar for many years.
Blend: 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Cabernet Franc, 4% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot
TASTING NOTES:
An elegant and pretty complex expression with an array of red and black cherries, grilled spices, tapenade and roasted red pepper. Some firm, nicely chewy tannins on the medium- to full-bodied palate gives a tight structure to the juicy fruit. Dialled back and fresh. Shows the angular tannins from the granitic soils.
- James Suckling, 94 pts.
The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Cuvée Alexandre from Apalta, Colchagua, was aged for up to 14 months in used barrels. Purple in the glass. The aromas feature cassis and blackcurrant notes with hints of pepper, bay leaf and mint over a deep layer of oak. In the mouth, it delivers good structure with juicy, grippy tannins and intense red fruit flavor. This is a full-bodied, nuanced wine with a lingering finish. The cool weather of 2021 has helped Lapostolle’s traditionally over-ripe style to achieve a new complexity.
- Vinous, 92 pts.
The creamy and sleek 2021 Cuvée Alexandre Cabernet Sauvignon reveals abundant notes of herbs and spices, a ripe profile and abundant, slightly grainy tannins. This is not 100% Cabernet; it has 7% Cabernet Franc, 4% Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot and matured in French oak barrels, 30% of them new, for 13 months.
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 90 pts.
