Winemaker Notes
Deep, intense purple-red color, with violet hues. Aromas of dark fruits such as fresh blueberries and currants combine with floral notes of lavender, alongside spicy hints of incense and pink pepper. In the palate, intense flavors of ripe fruit, such as red cherries and blueberries, are accompanied by spicy notes. With excellent length and balance, it shows good acidity that contributes to its high juiciness. The chalky tannins result in a wine with good grip and persistence on the palate.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2024 Las Pizarras Syrah is a stunning wine; it is visceral and vivid, with a floral, fruit-driven profile rather than a savory one, capturing the minimalist, stark purity that this vintage, at least at this early stage, routinely delivers. It is dense and refreshing on the palate, with excellent acidity and a tensile, balletic mouthfeel that combines genuine richness with impeccable finesse, culminating in a perfumed, chalky, mineral-driven finish. With additional aeration, the wine continues to develop, further enhancing its flawless purity and striking character. I found all three of the Las Pizarras bottlings to reach another level this harvest, but this wine most of all.
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James Suckling
Lovely floral nose of cassis, violets, lavender, black cherries, blackberries and a touch of lard. Attractively restrained, with a medium to full body, juicy fruit and fine, caressing tannins. Drink now or hold.
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Decanter
Supple and nicely textured on the palate, clean and focussed, not so bouncy but there's a comforting weight to the palate. A bit floral, some strawberry and red cherry flavours. I like the juicy core, this is clean, precise and focussed with lovely fine tannins and cool freshness. Well made.
Marked by an unmistakable deep purple hue and savory aromatics, Syrah makes an intense, powerful and often age-worthy red. Native to the Northern Rhône, Syrah achieves its maximum potential in the steep village of Hermitage and plays an important component in the Red Rhône Blends of the south, adding color and structure to Grenache and Mourvèdre. Syrah is the most widely planted grape of Australia and is important in California and Washington. Sommelier Secret—Such a synergy these three create together, the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre trio often takes on the shorthand term, “GSM.”
The Aconcagua River runs east from the charming costal town of Valparaiso and bisects the land creating the valley after which it was named. While alluvial soils predominate the Aconcagua Valey along its river throughout, its east-west flow creates drastically different conditions on each of its ends. Its western, seaside vineyards, with clay and stony soils upon gently rolling hills, produce cool-climate varieties such as Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Its inner region is one of Chile’s hottest and produces some of its best red wines. Panquehue in the inner Aconcagua is the site of Chile’s first Syrah vines, planted in 1993.