Trane
2022
Pedro Parra considers himself a lucky man, a very lucky man. He holds a PhD in terroir from the Paris Center of Agriculture and has been a consultant for some of the top wine companies in the world such as Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair in Vosne-Romanée, Domaine Roulot in Meursault, Argiano in Brunello and Marco Morengo in Barolo. After 15 years of travelling around the world he decided it was time to make wines that he likes to drink and to create a legacy for his family. He wanted to make...
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Cinsault single vineyard from the area of Guarilihue Alto. The vineyard was planted in 1943 with 0.51 ha. The soil is composed by a red, silty sandy horizon in the first 70 cm moving to a sandy silty decomposed light yellow - brown Granite, full of Quartz. The vineyard is organic (non certified). Around 3600 bottles per year are made.
A nice touch of white pepper funk with tangy berries, crushed chalk, pomegranates and wild raspberries. This is firm and ethereal at the same time, with plenty of chalky tannins that upload the fruit to the pristine, lengthy finish. Delicate and rather vulnerable.
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Hailing from complex soils defined by a mixture of iron, quartz, sand and silt, the 2022 Trane is the most aromatically spectacular wine in the Parra lineup, opening with an alluring, complex perfume of licorice, orange peels, roses and dark fruits. Similarly, the palate is the most sumptuous and concentrated, ratcheting up the density and saturation while sacrificing none of the silky precision that defines the house style. This power is echoed on the finish with an expansive, sweet intensity that swells in lockstep with a simmering mineral undercurrent, concluding with a retronasal perfume first observed on the nose. This is certainly the flashiest, most seductive wine in the stable, and I suspect it will evolve beautifully in the cellar.
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