Montsecano Pinot Noir 2016

Montsecano Pinot Noir 2016

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Description

Name: Montsecano Pinot Noir
Country: Chile
Region: Casablanca Valley
Producer: Montsecano
Size: 750ml
Vintage: 2016
Varietal: Pinot Noir

Wine Advocate: 94+ points
"One of the best vintages of the grand vin here has to be the eponymous 2016 Montsecano, produced 100% with Pinot Noir from the zone of Las Dichas in Casablanca. The vines were planted in 2006 on red clay and granite soils and, as all the wines here, sees no oak whatsoever; it fermented in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and was kept in egg-shaped cement vats until bottling in February 2017. This is simply delicious. This is not a Burgundy Pinot Noir, there is always a touch of rusticity here, an earthy touch. This is a pure Pinot Noir; it slowly opens up in the glass to an intoxicating mixture of wild flowers and herbs, with that rustic touch. The palate has very fine-grained tannins, tasty and long. I think this captures the intensity of the people that work here. 8,000 bottles produced."
-Luis Gutierrez

Wine Entusiast: 88 points
"Savory plum and latex aromas are roasted, spicy and show some burn. This is a dark full-bodied Pinot that's chewy in feel; overall it's more like Syrah than your average Pinot Noir. Oaky, medicinal flavors of cherry and plum are round and beefy prior to a burnt tasting finish."
-Michael Schachner