VENTISQUERO 2015 "PANGEA" SYRAH

As the former head winemaker for Penfolds, John Duval’s career has been spent making some of the finest Syrahs in the world and “Pangea” is his signature wine at Ventisquero. The vineyard site is rocky and dramatic, chiseled row by row into the hillside. The result is another level of winemaking in Chile-- yes, the wine is full and dark; suffused with blueberry, pepper, spice and black olive. However, the nobility of the Syrah grape is also in notes of dried herbs, dried flowers, delicate red fruit and a haunting prettiness underneath the all that heft. Some Syrahs miss these subtler notes, but John Duval brings it all together beautifully in this wine.