Errazuriz, Las Pizarras Pinot Noir Vintage:2017 demonstrating a perfumed and racy

demonstrating a perfumed and racy bouquet of citrus

A brooding but notably ripe nose of dark cherry and pungent earth aromas slides gracefully into strikingly rich and tautly muscular big-bodied flavors that possess praiseworthy concentration

plum and soft floral and spice nuances

(88-91)/2024+

Errazuriz, Las Pizarras Pinot Noir Vintage:2017 demonstrating a perfumed and racyI also tasted two consecutive vintages of the slate Pinot Noir, and the oldest of the two is the 2016 Aconcagua Costa "Las Pizarras" Pinot Noir, which fermented with 18% full clusters in open vats after a cold soak and had a 20 day maceration. It matured for some 14 months in French barriques, 33% of them new. It has that iodine like or fresh blood note I associate with schist and iron soils. This seems fresher and more precise than the previous 2015,