Cara Sur Criolla Chica, simply superb old vine light red

"The 2020 Criolla was harvested the first week of March and fermented with foot-trodden 30% full clusters in concrete eggs with indigenous yeasts. The élevage was in egg and lasted some eight months. This is incredibly pale, paler than any other wine here; it looks like a rosé, and the wine is ethereal, floral and flinty. In 2020, the grapes from the La Totora vineyard were added here, as the wine was not produced on its own, so that could be one of the changes here. There was a very soft extraction, a long infusion with no movement of the skins. The palate is light, and there are some fine-grained tannins but none of the rusticity the grape is able to deliver. Superb. This is still very young and should develop nicely in bottle. 5,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in October 2020." —Wine Advocate