Local wine clubs are great places to meet interesting people who love wine and try interesting wines. The Colchester Cellar Club is no exception. Friendly and relaxed it has a number of tastings each year on various themes. This time it was Chilean wines.

Below are my tastings notes

Lapostolle Alexandre 2019 Chardonnay at £22 a bottle.

Full on lemon, ripe citrus, nose of oak and smoke, high acid, long length, best with fish or a zesty salad.

Errazuriz wild ferment Chardonnay 2018 at £14 a bottle

Light lemon with lime hints and pink grapefruit,

Morande One to One Gewurtraminer 2018 at £9 a bottle

Perfumed nose, sweet with hints of rose. Med body with very long length. Light notes of lemon and hints of grapefruit and honey.

Morande One to One Pais 2016 at £9 a bottle

Nose of toffee and a hint of tune sweets. Light with red fruit with reserved tannins very much like a good beaujolais.

Mayu Appassimentto Carmenere 2017 at £13 a bottle

Rich black fruit nose, feeds into the flavours. Sweetness to the fruits, firm but soft tannins, so we’ll balanced and integrated with hints of smoke and oak, good solid length. Excellent

LFE 900 Single Vineyard Blend 2014 at £17 a bottle

Smokey, oaky nose with violets and hints of menthol, dry black fruits, spice hint. Very smooth, firm but well integrated tannins. Rather good.

Vik Milla Cala 2019 at £32 a bottle

Fresh red fruit , light nose and body, some spice and a little black fruit . High acidity, Overpriced but very nice.

Purple Angel Carmenere 2018 at £70 a bottle

Fresh menthol on the nose with black fruit. Spice and red and black fruits, firm but balanced tannins with dryness, clear and left on the lees but a lift is used to stir the lees. Its very nice but over priced.

LFE Late Harvest Viogner/Sauvignon Blanc 2017 at £7 a bottle,

Solid desert wine, not sticky but nice fresh flavours, ripe ctritus with good length. For the price this is outstanding. Its not complex but thats what most people need at the end of a meal.