Flaherty Wines

A red wine blend from the Aconcagua Valley of Chile 58% Syrah 31% Cabernet Sauvignon 11% Tempranillo Yield: Syrah: 9.5 tons /ha Cabernet Sauvignon: 6.0 tons/ha Tempranillo: 2.0 kilos/plant 100% Barrel aged for 19 months Total production: 5,646 bottles (471 cases) Bottled 8 February 2011 Alcohol: 15.0% (Vol%) Volatile acidity: 0.72 g/l pH: 3.53 Total [...]

A red wine blend from the Aconcagua Valley of Chile 44% Syrah 31% Cabernet Sauvignon 25% Tempranillo 100 % Barrel aged for 19 months Total Production: 4,488 bottles (374 cases) Alcohol                    15.0% (Vol%) Volatile acidity       0.68 g/l pH                             [...]

Although we had a couple of days of rain earlier this month, overall it’s been a really dry year in Chile, especially here north of Santiago. Like California, Chile receives virtually all of its rain in the winter (June through August), with the season extending out a month on either end. There’s a saying that [...]

We spent last Friday evening and all day Saturday pouring at the eleventh annual Cata y Vino wine tasting. We had a great time meeting the people who stopped by to try our wine, and of course it’s always fun to hang out with the MOVI group. Our room had a live jazz band for [...]

We recently finished the first barrel rack for the 2010 vintage, and we have quite the collage of different wines in barrel this year. We received fruit exclusively from the Aconcagua Valley, with four distinctive lots each of Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon from the Manzur Encón vineyard next to the Putaendo River, Syrah from the [...]

I just want to let everyone know that we are all fine here at the Flaherty homestead. We had quite a scare, as the quake went on and on for a full three minutes. That’s long enough to wake up, wait for it to pass (as they usually do), realize that it isn’t passing, get [...]

I’m on my own this week with the final fermentations, as Ed is at the London Wine Fair. The Fair is conveniently scheduled in May every year so that it is off season for the Northern Hemisphere wineries, but it is always a bit of a stretch for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere [...]