Viña Leyda -- Two Coastal Pinot Noirs

Breezy, cool, highly drinkable.

I reviewed the sauvignon blanc wines from Viña Leyda a few weeks ago. Now it’s the turn of the wineri’s pinot noirs, one from the Reserva series, the other from the Coastal Vineyards series; the latter is a single-vineyard wine. Nestled right up to the Pacific Ocean, lying on Chile’s coastal hills in the Leyda Valley, the winery’s vineyards receive the benefit of morning fog, cool breezes and a wide diurnal swing to stress the grapes and make them work for ripeness. The result is wines — in this case, pinot noirs — that sing of their proximity to the sea and their rootedness in the mineral character of the vineyard.