For those of you who have been following along as smitten as are we with the fruit from San Juan de Pirque (remember #14, # 16 and # 18) you are certainly going to like this year’s mountain grown Cab. This is the same fruit from the Upper Maipo above San Juan de ...
We began working with Cabernet Franc fruit as an element for the blend we make– and it grew on us.
There are many Cab Francs in Chile that are great elements for blending i.e. they offer a fuller rounder “middle-eight” to a Cab based blend, but this fruit near Pirque was the first that we ...
Pure Pinot Noir fruit from San Juan de Pirque single vineyard in the Maipo Alto (muy Alto Maipo at almost 1000 metres). Crafted with open-top fermenters, caps are punched down by hand and pressing is strictly manual. Maceration was relatively short 3-4 days previous to fermentation and 2-3 post. After fermentation it was aged for ...
If you loved #14 you are certainly going to love this year’s mountain Cab. For those of you who invested early you are going to be thrilled about this wine . This is the same fruit from the Upper Maipo, that we ...
This might be called our funky wine for 2008. It is the marraige of Old Bush Vine (80+yrs) Carignan from Maule and a Field Blend we made from Maipo 25%. The Carignan is fascinating for its freshness, spiceness, different flavour profile and perhaps most ...