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Saturday, April 8, 2023 - I tried this first in Chile a few months back asking the somm at an excellent Peruvian/Japanese restaurant to bring me the lowest alcohol Pinot. I was immediately enamoured and felt it showed like a Mugnier Chambolle. Often you have a bottle while away and it tastes good. Then you get back home and it’s not that great anymore. I ordered a few back home and put them blind against various good red Burgs and it held its own (more than once). It shows well out of Zalto Burgs, it takes well to air. It’s low alcohol at 12.5 pct, slight reduction on the nose, quite brambly and introvert at first, serene in a way, Chambollle-esque, salty and just draws you in. It’s not a “saltimbocca” fruit display, it’s more like an iceberg where you see a little and feel a lot lies beneath. Amazingly the vines were planted 2012 only, so they were merely 6 years old to make this very first vintage here. Viticulture information can be found on back label which is super useful. I would think that exciting times lie ahead as these vines mature. Possible to me known as the “Amoureuses” of Chile in 15 years? I have been drinking this one with abundance and never regretted a sip.

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