Louis-Antoine Luyt Blanco "Pipeño" Carrizal

The "Carrizal" Pipeño line is managed by farmer Ernesto Soto. He tends organic, dry-farmed bush vines ranging from 100-200 years old on sandy, clay soils rich in decomposed granite, in the Carrizal sub-zone of the small wine region of Itata. The fruit is harvested by hand and manually destemmed using a zaranda (a traditional mat used to separate the berries from the stems). Spontaneous fermentation and maceration (3 weeks) occurs with indigenous yeasts in open wooden lagares at the site they were farmed. The wine is then racked to wooden or stainless steel tanks to be transported to a bottling facility where the wine is lightly filtered and bottled.

Maule Valley, Chile

Moscatel, Chasselas, Sémillon, Torontel

Old vine, minimal intervention