Friends joining forces to recoup old vines to make wine is getting to be quite a trend. Great wines have ensued. Envínate and 4 Monos would be Spanish examples. Down... read more →
José Luís Bastías and Daniela Lorenzo’s 4ha winery is in dusty Maule, not far from Talca, first planted in the early 1800s. The grapes are co-fermented with their skins in... read more →
Roberto Henriquez spent winemaking time with René Mosse and a lot of time with Louis Antoine Luyt. He is also a leading force in natural wine in Chile. He stitches... read more →
Gustavo has been making wine from his family’s vines for over a decade. This bottling is from youngish vines in San Juan. He was trained in conventional biodynamics (Benziger) but... read more →
This is part of my país love affair. This one was traditionally destemmed on a pan-pipe-like bamboo contraption called a zaranda. Next, the free run juice was fermented and aged... read more →
Maca and Thomas made this wine from a mix of adjacent vineyards of granitic soils. The cinsault and carignan grapes are co-fermented and macerated on the skins for a brief... read more →
This is a gorgeous wine from Roberto’s newly purchased home vineyard. It has three hectares of vines, many of which are over 200 years old, planted on granitic soil. This... read more →
This wine comes from a crazy, high altitude vineyard of vines that look like little trees. The grapes were destemmed then cofermented for 5 days in wood vats and then... read more →
The muscat and the torrontel ferment on the skins with a maceration that lasts 60 days; 20% of país juice is then added with the skins of their other white... read more →
From a 200-year-old granitic soil vineyard located in Nacimiento in Bío-Bío, the wine is destemmed, fermented whole berry, pressed off then aged in 10-year-old beechwood (rauli) barrels where it stays... read more →