2021 | Pedro Parra | Newk

Fermented with whole bunches, it's fresh, saline and intense, with raspberry, plum and red cherry flavors, fine-grained tannins and racy, mouth-watering acidity.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The single-vineyard Cinsault 2021 Newk was named for musician Sonny Rollins Newk, for Parra, the wildest jazz musician of recent times. He says he finds the wine wild, full of energy and minerality. It was produced with grapes from an old vineyard in Guarilihue that is worked by horse, from vines planted on decomposed and rocky granite soils with some iron and a sandy and silty texture.

• James Suckling: Notes of white sesame with roasted grapefruit zest, citrus, watermelon, wild strawberries and peppery berries. Mineral, ethereal and there is almost a “sulfurous” sensibility. Juicy and nervy on the palate with firm and deliciously austere tannins that have dissolved into the wine. Very tight and mealy with serious structure and length. Delicious and drinkable now, but can hold, too. Such energy from 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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