“What I’m looking for is very personal. It’s like a sound, like a great musician. The great wines of the planet have a sound.”
Cody Stephenson (World Portfolio Manager, Skurnik) and Pedro Parra (saxophone player and owner/winemaker, Pedro Parra y Familia Wines) taste a flight of wines from Itata and discuss Pedro’s journey of pushing the limits, exploring the opposites, and discovering “the point of light” through revolutionary Chilean winemaking.
00:00 Introduction
02:20 Pedro’s introduction to wine
05:01 Pedro’s approach to tasting
06:55 País ‘Vinista’
08:27 Discovering “the point of light”
14:28 Cinsault ‘Monk’
18:26 Chardonnay ‘Resolution’
21:55 The changing Chilean wine landscape
The wines from this episode
- 100% País
- Sourced from dry-farmed different vineyards: 2 granitic vineyards in the area of Guarilihue Alto and 2 black silty basalt vineyards in Ñipas
- Hand harvested
- 60% whole cluster fermentation with indigenous yeast in open oak and steel tanks
- Aged in concrete and large oak casks for 1 year
- 100% Cinsault
- Single vineyard that comes from a place called “Tinajacura” in the Guarilihue Alto area, planted in 1995
- Silty sandy with high iron oxidated granite soils, with some quartz
- Hand harvested
- Fermented with indigenous yeast in concrete tanks
- 100% whole cluster
- Aged in oak vat for 11 months
- The muscular “Monk” Cinsault pays homage to jazz musician Thelonious Monk by displaying a direct, strong, and complex wine in full force
- 100% Chardonnay
- Sourced from the Malleco Valley
- Vineyard soil composition consists of shallow, pure, sandy, very decomposed granite, in general with very high presence of Quartz.
- Vinified by Pedro Parra with the help and mentorship of his dear friend Jean Marc Roulot
- Only 694 bottles produced
