Terroir Cinsault/Pais 2021

MORANDÉ’S NEW WINE RANGE, HIGHLIGHTS THE REGION’S ANCIENT TRADITIONS, ITS SMALL ARTISANAL PRODUCERS, ITS OLD HEAD-PRUNED VINES, AND EVERYTHING THAT REPRESENTS ITS CURRENT CULTURAL HERITAGE.

Color: vivid strawberry red. Aroma: red fruits, such as raspberries, sweet and sour cherries, and earthy notes. Mouth: of medium to light body, this juicy wine whows plenty of fruit flavors, soft tannins and great freshness.

The Cinsault vines are widely planted in the southern neighbor region Itata, and is also present in Maule valley. The vines are low bush trained. The grapes had a few applications of powdered sulfur during the ripening season, so they are technically organic. This dry farmed vineyard benefits of the 700 mm winter rain of La Constancia, our property nested in the eastern side of the coastal range near Botalcura town. The climate is warm and dry in summer, lightly influenced by the proximity of the Pacific Ocean. The País comes from an old, high head-trained vineyard in the same La Constanza property, planted more than 60 years a go in the bottom of the slopes, with a deep clay soil, perfect to grow in dry farming. Both, Cinsault known locally as “Cargadora,” due to its abundant production, and Pais also knows locally as “Chilena” or “Huasa” grows in this rustic rural area of Maule and resists successfully not only drought and fungus, but the modern viticulture to remind and preserve old traditions and country way of life.

The grapes for this wine were harvested by hand in 14 kg boxes. Their fermentation was carried out using a partial carbonic maceration and traditional fermentation (with at least 25% of whole berries) in concrete eggs of 2,000 ltr and in wooden open tanks. The must was then drained, and the solids pressed in a hydraulic basket press for it to finish its fermentation with native yeasts. We kept one part of the wine in cement eggs and we racked the other directly into 300 ltr French oak barrels where it was kept for 10 months.