These País vineyards are located on an alluvial piedmont starting at 800m from the Bío Bío River. The soil is especially unique with an alluvial top-layer over black, sandy (basaltic) soils. The wine itself is a representation of unadulterated País with herbal character.

De-stemmed / gentle crushing / wild ferment with punch-downs (no pump-overs) / no unnatural temperature control / 1 to 3 week fermentation / at dryness the free-run is separated and the skins are pressed.

Roberto Henríquez studied agronomy and enology at the University of Concepción. From there, he travelled and worked with winemakers in Canada, South Africa and finally in the Loire Valley with Rene Mosse. Rene had a profound effect on Roberto’s perspective on winemaking and his progression into organic and biodynamic farming.

Roberto, originally from Concepción, returned home after his time in abroad to begin making his own wine. Returning to the traditional Pipeño methods of the original winemakers of Chile felt intuitive to the winemaking style he had adopted. The rest of his story to present is pure progression to the pursuit of the most pure wines in a true Chilean context.

His vineyards were personally and carefully selected. Working with long term fermage agreements, he farms all the land himself (with the help of farming animals). To the north, in Itata, he is working with a vineyard of old vine Semillon and blends that with Corinto (aka Chasselas) and Muscat d’Alejandria producing an orange style wine. A little further south, in Bío Bío, he is farming Pais, from which he makes the Pipeño and the Santa Cruz de Coya.