2021 | Pedro Parra | Hub

On the palate it is light, firm and tense. A red wine with a strong grip, pleasant tannins and a refreshing acidity. The finish is captivatingly mineral.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2021 Hub, named after jazz trumpet player Freddie Hubbard because the wine comes from a higher and rockier place in the village of Guarilihue and Parra considers Hubbard the most audacious of the trumpet players. The dry-farmed vines were planted 40 years ago in the higher part of Guarilihue on rocky granite soils with lots of silt and quartz and less sand. It fermented in concrete tanks with 100% full clusters (that amount has been increased in the last few years) and indigenous yeasts, then the wine matured in concrete vat for 11 months. It has a developed orangish color and developed nose, which is as reminiscent of Rayas as any other wine I have tried in my life, with cherries in liqueur and brick dust, expressive and open, with some herbal, minty, almost eucalyptus-like notes. The palate is austere, pure sand and rocks, pure grip, bone with no meat.

• James Suckling: Fresh watermelon, strawberries, grapefruit, crushed pomegranate and some fresh, red flowers. Zesty grapefruit, elegant in style, with very firm, chalky tannins that are nicely integrated on the tangy and minerally attractive palate. A delicious and seductive cinsault.

Producer Information

Pedro Parra Family Wines (known as Pedro Parra or Pedro Parra y Familia) is a wine producer based in the Itata subregion of the Bío Bío Valley, Chile. Pedro Parra produces a range of wines under both the Itata and Bio Bio designations, predominantly from old vine Cinsault and Pais (Mission). Parra established his eponymous company after 15 years as a winemaker and winemaking consultant working in France, Argentina, USA, Italy, Canada and Armenia. Parra has a PhD in Terroir from the Paris Center of Agriculture. Parra eventually returned to Chile and settled in 2013 to begin wine production in his home region of Bío Bío under his own name. He produces a range of labels, predominantly from the Itata Valley subregion. The wines are predominantly blends or single-varietal examples of the local mainstays Cinsault and Pais although Muscat and Semillon can also, occaisonally, figure in the blends. Parra is also involved in the Aristos joint venture in the Cachapoal Valley with fellow Chilean winemaker Francois Massoc and Burgundy producer Louis-Michel Liger-Belair of the eponymous domaine in Vosne-Romanée.

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