YEAR’S BEST CHILEAN RED BLENDS; Austere and shy, this cabernet sauvignon–based blend includes ten percent carmenère and five percent syrah. It takes time to reveal the generous, ripe red fruit of Colchagua and also the sweet spices that characterize the cabernet from that sunny valley. But mainly it shows restraint in its rich herbal background notes. Le Dix is the top cabernet of Los Vascos and comes from old vines planted by the Eyzaguirre family in the warm flats of Peralillo. – P.T.
