Errazuriz, Las Pizarras Pinot Noir Vintage:2017 There is a reserved character

There is a reserved character to the beautifully detailed medium weight flavors that possess a distinct saline quality on the balanced

6% alcohol as opposed to the 13

Closes sappy

A brooding but notably ripe nose of dark cherry and pungent earth aromas slides gracefully into strikingly rich and tautly muscular big-bodied flavors that possess praiseworthy concentration

Errazuriz, Las Pizarras Pinot Noir Vintage:2017 There is a reserved characterI also tasted two consecutive vintages of the slate Pinot Noir, and the oldest of the two is the 2016 Aconcagua Costa "Las Pizarras" Pinot Noir, which fermented with 18% full clusters in open vats after a cold soak and had a 20 day maceration. It matured for some 14 months in French barriques, 33% of them new. It has that iodine like or fresh blood note I associate with schist and iron soils. This seems fresher and more precise than the previous 2015,