Boutique Winery Pool Blend, La Despensa
Description
The Cinsault, Marsanne and Roussanne for this wine come from our own, organically farmed vineyard, and the Pais is from 150 year-old vines about 20 minutes away from us. We farm and manage this vineyard ourselves, helping the owner produce high-quality grapes that he can sell for a premium. We are the only producers of Cinsault in our valley and one of just 7 or 8 producers of Pais here. There's so little of these varieties that the authorities don't recognise them, so we can name the variety on the label but we're not allowed to name the valley. Bureaucracy, eh?!
All the work is done by myself (Matt) and our part-time worker Juan. Every now and again we'll get a couple more people in to help out with specific tasks on the weekend, and for harvest we always have a crew of people from both Chile and overseas! This is small-scale, old-school, hands-on viticulture and winemaking. We're not a huge, faceless operation: We grow the grapes, we make the wine and we label the bottles by hand.
The label for this wine is a photo of me and my wife, Ana, sitting by the swimming pool in our mini-hotel. A friend took the photo and we loved it so much we decided to immortalise it!
The idea behind this wine was to produce a really fruity, easy-drinking wine, but at the same time a wine with depth and character. It's a wine that's unpretentious, easy to understand and easy to simply just crack open and enjoy. It's what wine should be.
Produced organically.
£23.95
Quantity Available: 12 or more
Product Code: S13202
Country
Chile
Vintage
2022
Alcohol Vol
13.5%
Bottle Size
75cl
Closure
screwcap
Vegan
YES
Vegetarian
YES
Grape Varieties
Cinsault, Marsanne, Roussanne, Pais
Producer Details
La Despensa Wines from Chile’s Colchagua Valley is owned, organically farmed and operated by Matt Ridgway, originally from Dorset, and his Chilean wife Ana. La Despensa is focused on varieties that are not what you’d typically expect from Chile, such as the traditional Rhône grapes of Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre and Cinsault. They also offer a rare example from Chile of Italy’s signature grape Sangiovese and even rarer and very old-vine Pais from Colchagua, where there are just 50 or so hectares left of these ancient vines in the entire valley. La Despensa produces high-quality, fresh, unoaked and deliciously drinkable wines that invite a second glass.
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