2024 Luyt Pipeño Hausa País

Region: Maule Valley < Chile

Grapes: País (aka Mission)

Vineyard/Cellar Stats: Organic farming (uncertified), dry-farmed, 200-
year-old own-rooted vines on sandy soil with decomposing granite;
partly whole clusters and partly destemmed, carbonic maceration for 8
days, then pressing and fermentations; bottled unfined/unfiltered with
no added SO2; 11.5% ABV

Winemaker: Luis-Antoine Luyt

• Luis-Antoine's new "bottled in CA series" - he makes the juice and transports it in bulk to our friends at Populis, who finish/bottle.  Lower carbon footprint, lower cost!
• Extreme volcanic soils = flinty, rocky, smoky wine
• Light and frothy, bright, slightly tart red fruit, soft tannins
• The perfect all-around chillable red
• Makes you long for BBQ season!

More about Luis-Antoine Luyt
Burgundy native Louis-Antoine Luyt has become an important voice in the fight for independent, terroir-driven winemaking in Chile. In a country where wine production is run almost entirely by huge industrial wineries, Luyt has managed to source fruit and rent vines from independent farmers throughout the Maule Valley. He insists on dry farming, horse plowing, organic viticulture and native yeast/intervention free winemaking, and makes the only line of Chilean wines following the European model of using the same varietal to highlight different terroirs. Each bottling of his Pais (the grape also known as Mission, not generally used to make quality wine) is named after a specific vineyard parcel or “lieu-dit”, each with its own soil composition, exposition, elevation and micro-climates. Chile escaped phylloxera, so the vines are very old and still on their original rootstock.