I’ve never before smelled a wine like this. The captivating aromas are amazing, with lavender, sage, dried potpourri, blackberries, tar, pepper and black licorice. Full-bodied with super tannins that fan out and caress the palate. It’s ethereal and endless. A pure syrah from the owners of Clos Apalta, from unique mountain vineyards. Just over 6,000 bottles made. Try to give this four or five years of bottle age. Best after 2028.

Impressive, with a slender sculpted feel, savoury blueberry and blackberry fruit, oak already well integrated. Sweet spices, liquorice, cocoa bean, olive and espresso come through in the mid palate. The Syrah for this wine, on steep east-facing granite slopes, was planted 20 years ago, among the first wave for Chile. A cool vintage with harvest two weeks later than 2020 and 13 days than last 6 years average, and this is a storming second vintage of a wine that comes from grapes that when younger were part of the Lapostolle Cuvée Alexander. Andrea Léon technical director.