Hub, named after jazz trumpet player Freddie Hubbard because the wine comes from a higher and rockier place in the village of Guarilihue and Parra considers Hubbard the most audacious of the trumpet players. The dry-farmed vines were planted 40 years ago in the higher part of Guarilihue on rocky granite soils with lots of silt and quartz and less sand. It fermented in concrete tanks with 100% full clusters (that amount has been increased in the last few years) and indigenous yeasts, then the wine matured in concrete vat for 11 months. It has a developed orangish colour and developed nose, which is as reminiscent of Rayas as any other wine I have tried in my life, with cherries in liqueur and brick dust, expressive and open, with some herbal, minty, almost eucalyptus-like notes.

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• Vintage: 2022 Format: 750ml Minimum Order: 6 bottle Country: Chile Region: Itata Varietal(s): Cinsault

• 96 POINTS, TIM ATKIN
  Hub is a tribute to the jazz trumpet player, Freddie Hubbard. Dense, stony and intense, it’s a grippy expression of Cinsault that comes from warm, very shallow sand and granite soils. Built to age in bottle, it has lots of underlying grip, black cherry and pomegranate fruit flavours and slightly higher alcohol levels than the majority of the bodega’s reds. 2025-32