Pedro Parra Miles Itata Valley Cinsault 2023
£60.75
The wine
Miles is one of the single-site Cinsaults, from a named granite parcel in Itata, bottled separately rather than blended into the main cuvée.
Itata in southern Chile is the country oldest wine region, planted by the Spanish in the sixteenth century, and its old bush vines on decomposed granite were long sold off cheaply for bulk wine before their value was recognised. The wines are dry-farmed, fermented with whole bunches and raised without new oak, on the reasoning that the point of the exercise is the soil rather than the cellar. Pedro Parra is a terroir consultant with a doctorate in soil science who advises producers across South America and Europe, and in 2013 he began making his own wines in his native Itata.
The producer
Pedro Parra
View all Pedro Parra winesPedro Parra is the world foremost terroir consultant turned winemaker, a soil scientist obsessed with granite, schist and the ancient bush vines of Chile Itata Valley. His wines have redefined what Chilean red can be, prizing finesse and minerality over power.
Working with old, dry-farmed Cinsault and Pais planted on decomposed granite, Parra farms and vinifies with a light touch, whole-bunch ferments and old oak, letting the soil speak. Each single-parcel wine is a study in place.
From the joyful, perfumed Imaginador to the profound single-vineyard bottlings named for jazz legends, Monk, Hub, Trane, Miles and Sonny, the range is a masterclass in granitic Cinsault, all detail, tension and grace.
Ethereal, mineral and utterly distinctive, Pedro Parra makes some of South America most thrilling and original wines, terroir made liquid.
