La Despensa Pais 2023Vintage 2023 Size 75cl ABV 14% Tasting Note La Despensa Wines from Chiles Colchagua Valley is owned, organically farmed and operated by Matt Ridgway, originally from Dorset, and his Chilean wife Ana Dry farmed on less than 12 inches of winter rain per year, this is a different take on Pais compared with wines from this variety further south in Chile. Hand picked grapes. Open top bin fermentation with native yeasts. 14 days from picking to pressing, no

Some fairly typical savoury notes of tomato and sour cherry

acclaimed restaurateur

Jancis Robinson MW had this to say of the 2018 vintage: Bright stone-fruit nose

This premium bottling of Irish Whiskey now contains Clonakilty distilled Single Pot Still Whiskey married with Single Grain Whiskey

Crisp and buzzing with citrus flavours

blackberries

cooler temperatures at these higher altitudes provide the ideal conditions for a slower maturation and a perfect ripeness

Light yellow in colour the wine has a fruity

Excellent with a long finish

floor-malted barley and mature the whisky in first-fill ex-Bourbon barrels and reconditioned red wine casks

strawberry and herbal aromas

Almost dormant at the end of the Soviet era