Viña Tarapacá Gran Reserva Pinot Noir 2013
Leyda Valley - DO NOT USE
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Superb, silky, elegant, complex Pinot Noir from the crack Tarapacá team, who only grant the Gran Reserva label to the top echelon wines. Fine, fragrant and barrel aged, this wine uses grapes from the finest vineyards in cool coastal Leyda. A triumph.
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Wine Details
- Red - Light Bodied
Chile- Mid tea rose red
- Pinot Noir
- 10.875 Units
- 14.5% ABV
- 750 ml
- 31 December 2019
Flavour Profile
Tasting notes
Smooth and supple with fragrant red fruits and fine vanilla mocha
Aroma
Cherries, strawberries, spices and toasty oak
The Wine
Pinot Noir is notoriously finicky about where it grows but it clearly loves the cool coastal climate of Chile’s Leyda Valley. Just taste this flagship Gran Reserva from Tarapacá. Pinot Noir of this quality from anywhere else would cost a lot more but, as Oz Clarke points out, by hunting out the right climate, Chile “is capturing Pinot’s elusive character at remarkably low prices”. Tarapacá’s Cristian Molina chose grapes from three sites for their distinctive characteristics: the Cheuque vinyard on coastal slopes and the inland Canelo and Araña vineyards. The wine was aged in lightly toasted French oak barrels to impart subtle mocha notes to cherry, plum and spice flavours, and lovely silky tannins. Top choice for pulled pork or seared tuna.
"This really is a lovely Pinot Noir, with pronounced flavours and the silkiest of tannins"
Robin Langton
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