Viñedo Chadwick represents the Chadwick family’s long cherished desire to honour the memory of the late Don Alfonso Chadwick Errázuriz with an Ultra-Premium red wine showcasing the ancestry, tradition, and expertise of the Chadwick-Errázuriz family. The aim is to make an elegant wine with freshness and purity, showing the Maipo Valley at its highest level.
Vineyard & Winemaking
The vineyard has been divided into several blocks which are monitored independently and harvested in the cool morning hours to preserve fruit quality. Plots are gently crushed and then fermented separately to maximize their character. This is followed by an extended maceration of up to thirty days depending on the development of the individual lots.
The wine is aged in French oak barrels. Racking takes place four or five times during ageing and is done from barrel. Blending decisions are made very late in the ageing process just before bottling. The aim of this is to give them more options for the final blend after the individual lots have developed their own unique characteristics in barrel, giving them more control each year over the character of the final wine.
What We Think
Unlike Seña, which is also made by Errazuriz, Viñedo Chadwick is almost purely Cabernet Sauvignon from the Maipo Valley which is a little warmer than Aconcagua. The wine was first noted at the Berlin Tasting in 2004, when Chadwick 2000 swooped the first place against the global elite (Lafite, Latour, Margaux, Solaia) in a blind tasting competition. Later, the 2014 vintage received the perfect 100 points from wine critics James Suckling, becoming the first Chilean wine to achieve such a world recognition. Last year, the previous vintage received an incredible triple 100 points from Robert Parker, Tim Atkin and James Suckling. This has strengthened its prestige and demand is sure to be high.
2022 Chadwick - The Scores
Aromas of blackcurrants, crushed stone, bay leaves, graphite, violets and some rust. Full-bodied with layers of velvety tannins that turn to cashmere. Juicy and flavorful. Needs time to open. It’s extremely structured and solid. Best after 2027. - 98 points James Suckling