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De Martino La Aguada Single Vineyard Maule Carignan 2021
This is from a vineyard planted in 1955 to carignan, with a little malbec and cinsault, in a cool part of Maule. The curved rows follow the contours of the land. Aged in large foudres to soften the wine without imparting any oak flavour. Fresh, bright, perfumed and taut, its fine tannins are ideal with roast pork and crackling. Such is the enthusiasm for the variety that a new association, Vigno, has been created for it. Twelve Chilean wineries originally signed up to the following agreement. Wines must have a minimum of 65% carignan, and at least 30 years old, with the balance coming from old vine varieties, or grafted onto old país rootstock, from the Maule secano area. All varieties must be dry farmed.
Price:
£26.00
Bottle
Price:
£156.00
Case of 6
In Stock
Code: CE12831
Wine characteristics
- Red Wine
- Medium-bodied
- Carignan
- 75cl
- Now to 2032
- 13.5% Alcohol
- oak used but not v. noticeable
- Cork, natural
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
De Martino Wines
Pietro De Martino Pascualone founded this estate in 1934, moving to Chile from his native Italy in search of a perfect place to make wine. He found an idyllic spot in the Maipo Valley, around 50km from Santiago, in between the Andes mountains and the Pacific ocean.
He settled in a town called Isla de Maipo, so called because it was surrounded by branches of the Maipo river, and although these have since dried up, they have provided excellent soils for the vines which are now planted in their place.
Today De Martino is managed by the third and fourth generations of the family, and has 300 hectares of vines. What sets De Martino apart is the leadership of winemaker Marco Retamal and the increasing influence of the new generation, Marco and Sebastián de Martino, who have been bitten by the wine bug and are set to do interesting things in the future. Marcelo Retamal is a very talented winemaker and viticulturist and has a more challenging vision of how Chilean viticulture should develop than most.
Part of his contract is an annual one-month period of study abroad looking at vineyards across the world. His visits have taught him that too many Chilean vineyards have been planted in too ‘safe’ a climate and that more extreme vineyards are necessary. For example, despite making good Casablanca pinot noir he stopped making it because he wanted to make a much better example. He is convinced that one needs a more continental climate for pinot, with snow in winter.
He has recently been...