The 2021 Seña is a stunning Bordeaux-style blend from Chile’s Aconcagua Valley, led by Cabernet Sauvignon with Malbec, Carmenere, and Petit Verdot. It’s elegant and refined, with juicy red and dark fruit, fresh acidity, and fine-grained tannins. The cooler vintage gave it great purity and balance, making it both vibrant and structured — a wine built for aging but already a real pleasure to drink.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 100
Published: Feb 20, 2024

Overwhelming nose with a cornucopia of black, red and blue berries, perfectly accented by fine toasty oak. With aeration the floral notes expand. Super-concentrated and vibrant with incredible finesse on the medium- to full-bodied palate. Such great brilliance at the finish, where the power builds very steadily. Still so young, but already dangerously delicious. It will be really hard to wait. A cuvee of 50% cabernet sauvignon, 27% malbec, 17% carmenere and 6% petit verdot. From biodynamically grown grapes. Drinkable now, but best from 2025. 20th Anniversary Berlin Tasting Event, February 2024.

The Wine Advocate | RP 98+
Published: Aug 31, 2023
Drink: 2024-2036

One of the finest vintages of the iconic Seña wine, the 2021 Sena comes from a cooler year, following the path of 2016 and 2018, certainly cooler than 2020 and 2019. It has a super expressive nose that is elegant, nuanced, perfumed, subtle and pure, with aromatic finesse, layered and complex. It was picked a couple of weeks later than in the previous two years and still keeping the alcohol below 14%. It was produced with a blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Malbec (cooler years with more), 17% Carmenere and 6% Petit Verdot, fermented mostly in stainless steel and 10% in oak foudre. It's fine-grained and structured but juicy, similar to 2018 but with more finesse. It has the spicy/herbal twist from the Cabernet, ultra-refined tannins that give it great elegance and with length, purity and delineation. Superb! 120,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2023. 

Decanter | D 98
Published: Mar 19, 2024
Drink: 2024-2040

Linear, elegant and beautifully structured, with fine-grained tannins that are at once firm and silky. Very nuanced aromatic profile with crunchy red plum, red cherry, cranberry, wild strawberries and blood orange, over broodier dark chocolate and tobacco. Subtle floral notes add lifting allure. In the mouth there’s an interesting tension between depth and fruit fleshiness, and the robust, vertical acid line.
Closure: Natural Cork
Alcohol: 13.50%
Body: Medium
Grapes: 50% Cabernet Sauvignon 17% Carménère 27% Malbec

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 16.5
Published: Sep 15, 2023
Drink: 2024-2031

Full bottle 1,427 g. Bit heavy! 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Malbec, 17% Carmenère, 6% Petit Verdot. Aged 22 months, 90% in French oak barrels (70% new) and 10% in foudres.
Deep crimson. Luscious fruit but real lift. There's that Chilean green/chocolate thing (Carmenère?) but overall it's a satisfying wine made with sensitivity from ripe but not too-ripe grapes. Dry, appetising finish.

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They named it Seña, a sign to the world that Chile was able to produce world-class wines, expressing the uniqueness of the Aconcagua Valley and changing the way the world thought about Chilean wine.

Seña is a unique Bordeaux-style red blend with a very Chilean soul. Its predominant variety is Cabernet Sauvignon, while Carmenere clearly ties it to Chile. Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot round out the blend.

2021 VINTAGE NOTES

An outstanding vintage due to moderately cool conditions that translated into a slow smooth ripening of the grapes.
Pure, elegant and refined wine.

The season saw average rainfall with 282mm falling between May and October and this enabled the aquifers in the valley to recover their levels ready for the coming season. With a total heat summation of 1,425 DD, slightly fresher than historical averages, that created an ideal slow growing season. In spring, the temperatures were within historical levels favouring a perfect fruit set. The summer was slightly cooler and cloudier than other years, with some refreshing rain (9mm) in late January, which ensured a gentle ripening of healthy grapes. During late March, the Seña vineyards were blessed with moderately warm days, allowing the grapes to reach perfect maturity.

The 2021 vintage will be remembered as an exceptional year with ideal conditions resulting in a vibrant wine of great purity. A wine with high aromatic complexity, refreshing acidity and delicious linear palate with fi­ne-grained tannins. A vintage with an extraordinary ageing potential.