Sena

SENA ist ein legendäres, chilenisches Joint Venture von Robert Mondavi und Eduardo Chadwick! 1997 kam der erste Jahrgang 1995 auf den Markt. Seit 2005 ist es in Alleinbesitz von Familie Chadwick. Die Weine sind von fantastischer Qualität, mit balancierender Säure, und vibrierender Energie. Die Weine sind auch sehr langlebig, wie ich aus einer sehr umfangreichen Sena / Vinedo Chadwick Verkostung im Jahr 2024 in Berlin, an der ich teilnehmen durfte, berichten kann.

Notizen des Weinguts: „In 1995 Robert Mondavi and Eduardo Chadwick pioneered an international joint venture with a very challenging goal: to reach the full potential of Chile’s wine country and to create a world-class Icon-level wine like none other in Chile. Sharing their dream, efforts and dedication, in 1997 they released the first vintage of Seña (1995), Chile’s first icon wine. This marked a milestone and initiated the path for making ultra-premium wines in Chile. (…)
Seña needed a vineyard of its own, and Tim Mondavi and Eduardo Chadwick began searching for just the right terroir. Tim was ahead of his time in insisting they seek out a cooler site in order to make a fresher, more elegant wine than was the norm in the mid-1990s. And because they agreed that the use of sustainable practices was a key element from the beginning, they also looked for a site that was relatively self-contained for better environmental protection and to prevent cross-contamination from neighbours involved in conventional agricultural practices.
Finding the ideal terroir was essential to the project. After four years of searching the Aconcagua Valley from east to west, checking hundreds of soil pits and temperature variations, an ideal piece of land was discovered in Ocoa, in the mid-section of the valley, 40 kilometres from the Pacific Ocean.
Seña’s 42-hectare hillside vineyard was planted in 1998 to key red Bordeaux varieties and Carmenere. The volcanic and colluvial soils on the valley’s slopes present a variety of textures and proportions of stone content, resulting in a great diversity of well-drained gravel and rocky soils with loam to clay-loam texture.

The Mediterranean climate in this valley ensures warm, dry summers, bright sunny days and cold, rainy winters that the vines love. Due to its proximity to the Pacific Ocean, the median temperatures are low, however, the vineyard’s position on the eastern side of the Coastal Mountains, facing away from the sea, protects the vines from the direct effect of the ocean’s strong, cold winds and creates cool-climate conditions, perfect for producing red grapes that reach an excellent level of maturity with balanced acidity that provide great elegance and Finesse."