Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 JULY42024 with more than a chunk

with more than a chunk over eighty years and a rare patch of pre-phylloxera Merlot said to be around 150

These vines were planted around the time Chile was fighting for its independence — roughly 200 years old

An electrifying blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from the villages of Bouzy and Ambonnay

austere half of Côte-Rôtie

at this strength it opens up dramatically and the sweetness comes forward

Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 JULY42024 with more than a chunkRafael Tirado planted his Maule vineyard with the rows running every which way, one block laid out as an actual labyrinth, which is how the estate got its name. Up at 1,800 feet on granite in the Andean foothills near Colbun, he farms Pais, the grape Spanish missionaries brought to Chile centuries ago and that almost everyone spent the last hundred years dismissing as peasant wine. Arcillas means clays, and that is the point: wild yeast fermentation,