2020 Tabali Talinay Pinot Noir Pai Limari Valley 750 ml

• Pinot Noir
• 2020
• Chile
• Limarí Valley

• The Story

  Chilean “First Growth” Tabalí crafted the 2020 Pai Pinot Noir from a tiny plot in the steep, ocean-influenced Talinay Vineyard. It’s a positively astonishing Pinot that has many major critics on board: Suckling, in his 97-point review, wrote, “I can’t believe this is Pinot Noir. Blind-tasting this, I’d guess Barolo for sure.” Wine Advocate and Vinous raved too, the latter calling it “a rare beauty.”

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• Wine Facts
  • Fruit Intensity
  • Oak Intensity
  • Body
  • Acidity
  • Tannin

  • ABV 12.50%
  • Enjoy right away
  • Now - 2035
  • % Pinot Noir
  • Serving temperature - 58°
  • Cork
• Wine Access Tasting Note

  A lovely soft-ruby core in the glass. The aromas are led by a center of Morello cherry on a basket of dried red roses, with crushed rocks, cola, and savory herbs. The palate is precise, with plenty of mouthwatering mineral content, red fruit, and uplifting acidity that leads to a long-lasting finish. Pure elegance driven by an Old World sensibility. Drink now–2035.

• Food Pairings
  • Hard Cheese
  • White Meat
  • Red Meat
• Critic Reviews

  97 pts

  James Suckling

  Light orange hue. I can’t believe this is pinot noir. Blind-tasting this, I’d guess Barolo for sure. So much effusive minerality with a decadent touch to the savory berries, iron, dried oranges and touches of caramel and soy sauce. Almost fruitless, but so savory and minerally, with great tension and fine tannins. Long and pure. From 1.13 hectares of pinot noir of massale selection without rootstocks. Vines are 12 years old. Around 40% of limestone. Fermented in small tanks with 40% whole bunches. Aged in French oak barrels (second, third and fourth use). 6,000 bottles made. Drink or hold.

  95 pts

  Vinous

  The 2020 Pinot Noir Talinay Pai from Limarí was made with grapes from massal selections of Vosne-Romanée and Gevrey-Chambertin, 40% fermented with stems. It was aged for 12 months in French oak barrels sourced from famous areas such as Fontainebleau, Jupille, Bertrange, Tronçais and Allier. Garnet with a terracotta sheen in the glass. The aromatic profile presents sweet and sour cherry, damp earth and dried flower notes over a bed of nutmeg and cigar box. Pure silk in the mouth with intense flavor. The lactic flow and precise freshness create a taut, voluminous palate, underlined by a saline character that lingers at length. A rare beauty from Chile.

  95+ pts

  Wine Advocate

  The 2020 Talinay Pai Pinot Noir is only the third vintage of their top Pinot Noir, produced with grapes from two massal selections from Vosne-Romanée and Gevrey-Chambertin in Burgundy that were planted ungrafted and with a very high density of 12,500 plants per hectare on a steep slope (30%) inside the Talinay estate vineyard. It's a unique 1.15 hectare of vines that were planted in 2012 on soils with a very high content of limestone and a place with a strong influence from the sea that delivers very mineral wines with freshness and grip and a special texture. It fermented with 40% full clusters and indigenous yeasts and matured in well-seasoned oak barrels for 12 months. It's only 12.3% alcohol and has very good freshness and acidity. It's a bit flinty and has notions of gun powder, a profile that comes from that place, an elegant and mysterious reduction that makes the wine layered, nuanced and complex. This is firm, energetic and light on its feel with lots of inner strength. Nobody would talk about a warm year drinking this wine. 6,000 bottles were filled in August 2022. I tasted a component of the 2022, which seems like a superb vintage, coming to you in two more years.