Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 FRFLSH small growers

small growers

a touch of jalapeño spiciness

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

and Les Beguines is his signature wine

These macerations are then blended together with the fresh cold brew and sweetened with homemade panela

Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 FRFLSH small growersRafael 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,