Winery MayuCarmenère - Syrah
Red wine
This wine is composed of 100% of the grape variety Shiraz/Syrah.
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese.
The Carmenère - Syrah of the Winery Mayu is in the top 50 of wines of Elqui Valley.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Carmenère - Syrah of Winery Mayu in the region of Coquimbo often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Carmenère - Syrah
Pairings that work perfectly with Carmenère - Syrah
Original food and wine pairings with Carmenère - Syrah
The Carmenère - Syrah of Winery Mayu matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of oxtail with seed sauce, semolina-merguez salad or chicken tajine with prunes.
Details and technical informations about Winery Mayu's Carmenère - Syrah.
Discover the grape variety: Carmenère
Velvety, deep reds with a dark robe and round tannins, showing aromas of blackberry, plum, ripe red pepper, dark chocolate, coffee and gentle spice. Warm, supple finish. Absolute star of Chile (Colchagua, Cachapoal, Maipo) where it was rediscovered in 1994, long confused with Merlot. A historic Bordeaux variety that nearly vanished after phylloxera, a cross of Cabernet Franc × Gros Cabernet.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Carmenère - Syrah from Winery Mayu are 2017, 2014, 2013, 0 and 2015.
Informations about the Winery Mayu
The Winery Mayu is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 44 wines for sale in the of Elqui Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Elqui Valley
Northernmost valley of Chile at the edge of the Atacama desert, very sunny desert climate (<70 mm rain/year), cool nights from the Pacific and the Andes. Syrah signature as king red: intense and concentrated with notes of black mulberry, cassis, violet, black pepper, olive, garrigue and a schistose mineral touch, firm tannins and sunny palate — unique high-altitude typicity. Zippy herbal Sauvignon Blanc in complement. Historic cradle of Chilean Pisco since the 16th c.
The wine region of Coquimbo
Chile's northernmost wine region (600 km north of Santiago), covering the Elqui, Limarí and Choapa valleys under a semi-desert climate cooled by the Pacific Camanchaca fog and the Andes. Syrah is the flagship red — intense blackcurrant, blackberry, black pepper, olive and a mineral-saline altitude edge, fine tannins and elegant freshness. Structured Cabernet Sauvignon. Taut Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc with citrus notes.
The word of the wine: Performance
Quantity of grapes harvested per hectare. In AOC, the average yield is limited on the proposal of the appellation syndicate, validated by the Inao. The use of high-performance plant material (especially clones) and better control of vine diseases have increased yields. This is not without consequences on the quality of the wines (dilution) and on the state of the market (too much wine). We must not over-simplify: low yields are not synonymous with quality, and it is often in years with generous harvests that we find the greatest vintages (1982 and 1986 in Bordeaux, 1996 in Champagne, 1990 and 2005 in Burgundy...).
