Cinsault 'HUB'

Score

94

"One of three single-vineyard Cinsault bottlings, the 2018 Hub is named after jazz trumpet player Freddie Hubbard because the wine comes from a higher and rockier place in the village of Guarilihue and he considers Hubbard the most audacious of the trumpet players. The dry-farmed vines were planted 40 years ago on granite soils with lots of silt and quartz and less sand. They got 2,500 kilos of grapes per hectare— very low yields—and it fermented in concrete tanks with 30% full clusters and indigenous yeasts, matured exclusively in concrete and was bottled completely unoaked. Because it is completely unoaked, it has more tension than the other two single-vineyard bottlings. It's mineral and sharp, narrow and long, with lots of tension."