Wines
Today we bottle 18 wines each vintage. They are like a patchwork quilt a veritable mosaic of Maule, Maipo & Itata. They fall into the following categories:
The Parcels (11 small vineyards bottled each on their own)
Each of these is produced from a small vineyard of between 3/4 of a hectare to about 2 1/2 hectares. Sauzal is perhaps the smallest with 185o bottles per vintage. Others are as many as 95oo bottles.
Single Ferment Series Wines
Single Ferment Series wines include fruit from more than one parcel or vineyard site and are (co-fermented) ¨in one single ferment ¨ Sometimes all the fruit does not enter the tank at same time and we simply stack on top of the fermenting tank when the next fruit is ripe -- one single ferment one single wine, no tweaking.
The Fieldcraft Bottlings
These are wines that simply put: usually don’t get made. They are tiny forgotten vineyards that defy the modern model of: necessary scale, practicality for harvest, proximity to transport, valid D.O. paperwork (Denomination of Origin)… and so forth.
These vineyards have everything against them, but they are diamonds in the rough. We began with the Phoenix after the bushfires in 2o17 and are now producing three with the 2018 harvest.
1 a Phoenix but with more Cariñena in the blend of principally Pais,
2 a Semillon on skins painstakingly separated from the Sauvignon that had crept into the vineyard.
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The Parcels
We began making wine in 2001 and we have numbered each bottling since then with a lot number: Lot #1, Lot #2, Lot #3 and so on. Twenty years later our latest release of Old Vine Pale is Lot 103, that is to say the 103rd bottling since we began in 2001.
Our principal wines are yearly bottlings from 1o small parcels. Each parcel bottled ends in the same digit each year. Pirque for instance always ends in a zero: 2013 Lot #5o, 2014 Lot #6o, 2015 Lot #7o, 2016 Lot #8o, 2017 Lot #9o and so on...
See below :
Pirque Vineyard
Valle Maipo
Cabernet Franc
2017 - Lot #90
(2016 - Lot #80, 2015 - Lot #70, 2014 - Lot #60, 2013 - Lot #50)
San Juan de Pirque Vineyard
Maipo Valley
Cabernet Sauvignan
2017 - Lot #91
(2016 - Lot #81, 2015 - Lot #71, 2014 - Lot #61, 2013
- Lot #51)
Las Higueras Vineyard
Valle Maule
Cabernet Franc
2017 - Lot #92
(2016 - Lot #82, 2015 - Lot #72, 2014 - Lot #62, 2013 - Lot #52)
Old Vine Pale
Truquilemu Vineyard
Empedrado - Maule Valley
Cariñena Mataró Field-blend
2020 - Lot #103
(2019 - Lot #93, 2018 - Lot #83, 2017 - Lot #73, 2016 - Lot #63, 2015 - Lot #53)
Renacido Vineyard
Maule Valley
Cabernet Sauvignan
2016 - Lot #74
(2015 - Lot #64)
Sauzal Vineyard
Carignan, Garnacha, Mataró Field Blend
Empedrado - Maule Valley
2018 - Lot #95
(2017 - Lot #85, 2016 - Lot #75, 2015 - Lot #65, 2014 - Lot #55, 2013 - Lot #45)
Bagual Vineyard
Caliboro, Maule Valley
Carignan, Garnacha Mataro
2016 - Lot #76
(2015 - Lot #66, 2014 - Lot #56, 2013 - Lot #46)
Truquilemu Vineyard
D.O. Maule Valley
Carignan Field-blend
2018 - Lot #97
(2017 - Lot #87, 2016 - Lot #77, 2015 - Lot #67, 2014 - Lot #57, 2013 - Lot #47)
Portezuelo Vineyard
D.O. Maule Valley
Carignan, Field-blend
2015 - Lot #68
(2014 - Lot #58, 2013 - Lot #48)
Bagual Vineyard
Caliboro, Maule Valley
Garnacha Field-blend
2016 - Lot #79
(2015 - Lot #69, 2014 - Lot #59, 2013 - Lot #49)
Vigno
Dry-farmed Old Vines
D.O. Maule Valley
2018
2017, 2016 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010