NAME ALMAVIVA (Chili)    PROPRIETOR Baron Philippe de Rothschild & Viña Concha y Toro Joint venture concluded in 1997 (first vintage 1996)    APPELLATION Foreign/Etranger, Assimilated Cru Classé    COMMUNE Puente Alto, Chili    VINEYARD 40 hectares in Puente Alto (just south of Santiago in central Chili). This ideal location for the Cabernet Sauvignon grape is highlighted by its stony soil, cold rainy winters and the hot days and cool nights of its summers.  VARIETALS 70% Cabernet Sauvignon 27% Carmenère 3% Cabernet Franc Average age : 25 years old      PRODUCTION 140 000 b. total production      VINIFICATION Harvested by hand and vinified in thermo-regulated stainless steel vats. The wine is aged in french oak barrels during 16-18 months.      STYLE Aromatically rich and complex with notes of prunes, chocolate, tobacco and cassis. Ripe and firm tannins married harmoniously with aromatic notes of red fruits and vanillin. The aftertaste is elegant, harmonious and long. A powerful and complex wine. The name “Almaviva”, though it has a Hispanic ring to it, nevertheless belongs to classical French literature: Count Almaviva is the hero of The Marriage of Figaro, the famous play by Beaumarchais (1732 – 1799) later turned into an opera by the genius of Mozart. The label, meanwhile, pays homage to Chile’s ancestral history, with three reproductions of a stylised design which symbolised the vision of the earth and the cosmos in the Mapuche civilisation.      MARKET NOTE Unique to the distribution of Chilean (and other new world) wines, Almaviva is distributed only by a limited number of Bordeaux negociants which includes, of course, BARRIERE FRERES.