El Viejo Almacen 'Huaso de Sauzal' Chilena Pais, Cauquenes, Chile 2016 Domaine Hauvette cherry and pomegranate

cherry and pomegranate

The total absence of any sense of sweetness in this Brut Zéro allows the limestone to take center stage

There is solid density to the punchy medium-bodied flavors that possess a lovely sense of detail that is enhanced by the relatively fine-grained tannins shaping the youthfully austere

effortlessly elegant

There is a change in the 2022 La Bruja

El Viejo Almacen 'Huaso de Sauzal' Chilena Pais, Cauquenes, Chile 2016 Domaine Hauvette cherry and pomegranateThe 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