Louis-Antoine Luyt
Louis-Antoine Luyt Tinto Pipeño "Coronel del Maule" 2021
Louis-Antoine Luyt Tinto Pipeño "Coronel del Maule" 2021
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Pais, known as Mission in North America, is an old variety brought to the New World by Spanish colonists and was often grown by monasteries. It was considered a workhorse grape traditionally, making wine for farmers and church services, a style the Chileans called Pipeno. In recent years, Pais has seen a revival, with many established sites reaching many hundreds of years in age.
The vines behind this bottle range from 200-300 years old. Aged in old, wooden tanks and bottled unfiltered with minimal sulfur, this is a surprisingly lightfooted addition to the table. Try serving it with a slight chill, or otherwise at cellar temperature.
About Louis-Antoine Luyt
About Louis-Antoine Luyt
The term Pipeño is actually derogatory slang for "peasant wine." Louis-Antoine decided to turn the phrase on its head, reclaiming it as a way of highlighting the unique terroir of their region. Each bottle sports the name of a sub-region, and is either locally purchased fruit vinified of site or finished wine made by the farmer themselves. Every bottle in the Pipeño line comes in a one-liter bottle. These are wines meant for sharing, without judgement or prejudice. This vintage was dry-farmed from bush vines 200-300 years Coronel del Maule sub-zone of the Maule region. The bunches are harvested by hand and manually destemmed, then fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in open wooden lagares. After ageing briefly in a blend of wooden tanks, stainless steel, and clay tinajas, the finished wine is bottled with nearly no sulfur in very sharable liter-sized bottles.
Region
Region
Maule Valley, Chile
Variety
Variety
Pais
Technical Details
Technical Details
