Crushed raspberry, wild strawberry, and rose petals that lead into underlying hints of dried herbs, mint leaves, fennel and thyme. This fruit driven, easy drinking wine with a bit of savory notes, with fresh acid and low tannin this wine can be enjoyed with a slight chill.
WINE INFORMATION
Pipeño is the traditional method of winemaking in Chile, which dates back to the late 16th century. The Aupa Pipeño from Viña Maitia is an old school blend of 80% País (also known as Mission, Listan Negro and Criolla Grande) and 20% Carignan from a 10 hectare, 120-year-old, dry farmed vineyard in the Maule Valley of Chile. This valley benefits from a Mediterranean-like climate where high temperatures in the summer are cooled by the breeze from the Humboldt Current in the Pacific Ocean. Pipeño is a rustic wine because pais was traditionally a sacramental grape. It was also the first grape planted in the Americas, brought here by the Spanish.
Frenchman David Marcel is the producer and winemaker at Viña Maitia with his Chilean wife Loreto from the Maule Valley of Chile. Marcel comes from the French Basque Country. After graduating with a wine degree from Montpelier, David worked for large wineries producing significant quantities of wine . He was one of the first winemakers in Chile to succeed in the production of quality, craft Pipeño starting with the 2013 vintage.
For this vintage the grapes are removed from the clusters manually by being hit over a zaranda, a metal grid that acts as destemmer and press. This wine is fermented with native yeast. The Carignan is fermented with whole clusters, and then the blend is aged briefly in concrete before bottling into flint glass at with minimal amounts of sulfur added.
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