Zuccardi Finca Las Cerrilladas 2020

The 2020 Finca Las Cerrilladas has gentler tannins than the 2019; this is different but still very balanced and serious, with the subtle aromas of the wild herbs and flowers, the thyme and rockrose, the grainy tannins and the chalky sensation. This feels every bit as good as the initial 2019. They played with the different plots and found that, in a warmer year like 2020, they used more grapes from plots with pink caliche stone – a formation of dissolved limestone and clay somewhat similar to marl – and less from shallower soils and slopes where they have goblet pruning. It even feels subtler than the 2019… Drink date: 2024-2032. Score – 98. (Luis Gutiérrez, robertparker.com, Nov. 30, 2022)