The 2010 Inspiracion Valdemar Maturana has an extremely dark color, it’s almost black in color with plenty of black notes in the nose – peat, shoe polish, graphite and charred wood, ripe blackberries and cassis. It reveals a lactic touch, but manages to avoid the herbaceous notes so common in Maturana Tinta. It is a full-bodied wine, round and powerful, with pungent flavors and a long finish, well-crafted but is hard to pin down as a Rioja. Drink 2014-2019. Bodegas Valdemar, which seemed very modern when created in 1985, has a wide portfolio of well-crafted, clean wines showing good typicity and balance as well as an interesting collection of varietals. They now produce two million bottles of very regular, crowd-pleasing wines. Imported by CIV (USA) Coleccion Internacional Del Vino, Sacramento, CA; tel. (800) 669-1972; www.civusa.com