El Viejo Almacen 'Huaso de Sauzal' Chilena Pais, Cauquenes, Chile 2016 Savoie hints of red fruit

hints of red fruit

and freshly baked bread on the nose

Medium-to full-bodied with firm

and the wine is serious and harmonious

It feels young—you wouldn't guess it's already ten years old—and it has the textbook aromas from Rioja

El Viejo Almacen 'Huaso de Sauzal' Chilena Pais, Cauquenes, Chile 2016 Savoie hints of red fruitThe star here is the Pas, which he calls 2016 Huaso de Sauzal Chilena, from grapes picked later than usual, as there was rain during March and April. All of the wines here ferment in traditional raul wood casks. The vines are extremely oldthey don't know how oldungrafted and head pruned in the Secano Interior traditional zone of Chile, where viticulture was without irrigation. It ferments with indigenous yeasts, without temperature control or any