Peter Maude Fine Wines
2024, Sena, Aconcagua Valley, CHILE
$186.30 inc. GST
60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Carménère, 18% Malbec, 6% Petit Verdot
Vintage 2024. A cool beginning gradually gave way to a warm, decisive finish, allowing the vineyard to unfold at its own rhythm and reveal a vintage of liveliness, depth, and harmony.
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.
98 James Suckling.
The 2024 Seña shows a balsamic profile marked by 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. 2026-2045.
96 Joaquin Hidalgo, Vinous.
The child of a balanced growing season, this vintage of Seña shows a balanced layering of deep red and blue fruit, mountain herbs and fragrant rose petals, with herbaceous freshness adding a savoury verve. The nose is deep and alluringly broody, marrying lavender, tomato leaf and Earl Grey. The palate fills with a burst of cherry, cranberry and ripe strawberry, sprinkled with black and pink pepper and graphite. Roasted peppers and tomato compote play in the background with moreish juiciness. Both the well-honed tannins and fine acid line add welcome tension throughout. Although drinking beautifully, opening in the glass with seductive complexity, this is still quite coiled and will benefit from time in bottle. Look forward to revisiting it 10 years from now!
97 Ines Salpico, DECANTER Magazine.
