El Viejo Almacen 'Huaso de Sauzal' Chilena Pais, Cauquenes, Chile 2016 Domaine Hauvette Great complexity on the nose

Great complexity on the nose with drying plum

the 2021 Lyra is perfectly balanced with an elegance often found in some of our favorite wines

with pronounced minerality and freshness

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

93 Pts Decanter

El Viejo Almacen 'Huaso de Sauzal' Chilena Pais, Cauquenes, Chile 2016 Domaine Hauvette Great complexity on the noseThe 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