VC Family Estates is one of the hottest names in South America. Its stable of wineries includes Porta, Gracia, Veranda and Agustinos in Chile and Chalten and Calafate in Argentina. But far from being a group of stale, marketing driven brands, these labels represent the adventurous spirit at the forefront of South American winemaking. VC Family Estates has about 1000 hectares of vines in full production in areas like Maipo, Alta Cachapoel, Apalta and Colchagua, but it is in the more marginal regions like Bio Bio, Aconcagua and Neuquen-Patagonia that the company is doing some of its most pioneering work, especially with varieties like Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc. These are terroir driven, elegant wines with clean, fresh fruit from Chile and Argentina's coolest areas that provide exactly what drinkers are currently after. At the helm as chief winemaker and consultant is the very well-known Burgundian winemaker, Pascal Marchand.

The wine has a deep ruby red color. There is an aroma with much complexity and potential. There are notes of red fruit, spices and some menthol. The mouth is elegant, structured and the notes are repeated in nose. There is some lead. The finish is long and persistent.

• Product Code: BB17AU
• Grower: VC Family Estates
• Grape Variety: Red Wine Blends
• Style: Elegant and Structured
  
• Country: Chile
• Appellation: Aconcagua Valley
  
• Vintage: 2006/7
• Alchohol: 15% ABV
• Case Size: 6
• Bottle Size: 75cl

Vintage Rating on this wine was 93 (source: Wine Competition Award Wnners)

Closure: CORK

Alternative wine closures are substitute closures used in the wine industry for sealing wine bottles in place of traditional cork closures. The emergence of these alternatives has grown in response to quality control efforts by winemakers to protect against "cork taint" caused by the presence of the chemical trichloroanisole (TCA).

Screw caps or "Stelvin caps" are closures made only from aluminium material that threads onto the bottleneck. They are the predominant closure used by New Zealand wineries.[8][9] This can be attributed in part to the New Zealand screw cap initiative which promotes the use of screw caps instead of cork. Screw caps form a tighter seal and can keep out oxygen for a longer time than cork. These benefits aid in maintaining the wine's overall quality and aging potential.

Vino-Seal, or Vino-Lok, is a plastic/glass closure released by Alcoa. Since its introduction into the European market in 2003, over 300 wineries have utilized Vino-Seal. Using a glass stopper with an inert o-ring, the Vino-Seal creates a hermetic seal that prevents oxidation and TCA contamination.

Zork is an alternative wine closure that seals like a screw cap and pops like a cork. The Zork closure consists of three parts; an outer cap providing a tamper evident clamp that locks onto the band of a standard cork mouth bottle, an inner metal foil which provides an oxygen barrier similar to a screw cap, and an inner plunger which creates the ‘pop’ on extraction and reseals after use.

The traditional crowned bottle cap has been used in the sparkling wine industry as a closure during the bottle fermentation process (méthode traditionnelle). Normally the cap is replaced with a cork before shipping, though recently some producers are releasing wines using the crown cap as their closure.

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