Ungrafted Old Vines Cinsault 2024

100% cinsault

sustainable

Valle del Itata, Chile

The De Martino family has been producing wines in Chile since 1934. The winery is now run by the 4th generation – brothers Marco and Sebastian. Like the generations before them, they have been focused on producing wines that reflect their origin and the character of each vineyard, based on solid principles of sustainable farming and traditional winemaking methods. The brothers have a very strong attachment to their vineyards in two areas, the Isla de Maipo (Maipo Valley) and Guarilihue (Itata Valley). In both these places, they have successfully cobbled together over time a beautiful array of ungrafted vines.

Sustainable farming practices including horse ploughing. The names of the horses are "China" and "Rusio". No machinery is used in this vineyard and the vineyard work is all done manually. Grapes are sorted and destemed and then fermented in stainless steel with wild yeast. Post fermentation the wine is moved to neutral French barrels to age for 6 months.