Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 FRFLSH Hand-selected clusters de-stemmed

Hand-selected clusters de-stemmed

built around old field-blend parcels at 500-700 meters

this is a piece of California wine history rather than a current wine

and a deliberate block on malolactic fermentation to preserve every bit of freshness

Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 FRFLSH Hand-selected clusters de-stemmedRafael Tirado planted his Maule vineyard with the rows running every which way, one block laid out as an actual labyrinth, which is how the estate got its name. Up at 1,800 feet on granite in the Andean foothills near Colbun, he farms Pais, the grape Spanish missionaries brought to Chile centuries ago and that almost everyone spent the last hundred years dismissing as peasant wine. Arcillas means clays, and that is the point: wild yeast fermentation,