Cinsault, Pedro Parra 'Newk'

The single-vineyard Cinsault 2021 Newk is one of the new additions to his Jazz series and was named for musician Sonny Rollins Newk, for Parra, the wildest jazz musician of recent times. He says he finds the wine wild, full of energy and minerality. He likes to use the analogy of a musician to terroir. A musician can perform the same piece over and over, but each time with will be a little different. Every year presents a new opportunity for a terroir to perform the same song again.

It was produced with grapes from an old vineyard in Guarilihue that is worked by horse, from vines planted on decomposed and rocky granite soils with some iron and a sandy and silty texture. It fermented with 100% full clusters after four or five days with native yeasts and a total maceration time of 55 days, then the wine matured in an oak vat for 11 months. It has 13.5% alcohol and is austere and sharp, mineral and stony. It's a bit reductive and opens up to notes of fresh blood and iodine, a little Gonon with that herbal side. The palate is phenomenal; it's deep and has grip and is mineral and intense with energy, direct and not shy.

97pts from Wine Advocate / 96pts from James Suckling