Pinot Noir los Parientes, Baettig, Traiguen

There is a melted chocolate-crust character that binds well with the wild strawberries, plums, roses, wild herbs, white pepper and stemmy accents. This is bright and muscular, charged with seamless tannins. Very unique and powerful pinot, but juicy and caressing, too.

The extremely young red 2020 Vino de Viñedo Los Parientes Pinot Noir comes from a very warm and dry year in central Chile, but more normal in the south, but even then, the grapes were picked between March 20th and 30th (before the Chardonnay), quite early. There are nine hectares of Pinot Noir that are dry farmed and without herbicides in a zone of Mediterranean climate with average rain of more than 1,000 liters; in a drier year they might get 800 liters instead... This fermented with some 8% full clusters and matured in French oak barrels, 10% new and 300-liter, for 10 months. It's quite complex, with notes of rose hip and red berries and a hint of blood and iron. It has a soft palate with some earthy tannins, juicy acidity and some spiciness. - Luis Gutierrez

The 2020 Pinot Noir Baettig Vino de Viñedo Los Parientes, from Malleco, Traiguén, is aged for 10 months in 10% new barrels. Purplish red in hue. The aromas include sour cherry, sweetbriar and a hint of tea. In the mouth, the tannins are grippy and shape the well-judged acidity to energize the slightly warm palate. - Joaquín Hidalgo

Fermenteret i franske fade med naturlig gæring, med en mindre del hele klaser. Herefter 11 måneder i 18% nye 300-liter fade. Masser af hindbær og roser i duften. MEget blød og venlig. Pæn friskhed og perfekt modenhed. Intenst frugtig med en fin, lang afslutning.

nu er den tilbage på hylden hos forhandleren, og så er det bare om at slå til. For kvalitetsmæssigt repræsenterer vinen nok noget af det bedste inden for oversøisk pinot noir – særligt når vi taler sydamerikansk pinot. Dyb burgundisk næse med behersket stilket og pebret helklase-aftryk. Frugtnoterne rummer hyld, kirsebær og boysenbær samt noget røget og vulkansk svovlet, der tydeligt går igen i smagen. Mørke bær i ultraren form, fin syre og en spicy afslutning understreger, at dette er en ualmindeligt vellavet vin.

Maceration carbonique-frugtighed, tranebærsaft, nærmest cool og alkoholmild jura-stil, sprødmøre bær, brysksyre på den lækre måde, ja kald det bare chilensk syre, for de har noget me syre derovre dernede, og mild silketannin med svampesoja og tamarind i eftersmagen.