TASTE
Intense, elegant nose with notes of mint, spices and liquorice, leading into ripe flavours of black fruits: blackberry, plum and cassis. Generously structured on the palate with a seam of earthy minerality.
FOOD PAIRING
Beef · Lamb · Game (deer, venison) · Poultry
PRODUCER
The magnificent Haras de Pirque estate occupies a privileged position at the foot of the Andes, in Chile’s Maipo Valley region. The lovingly tended vineyards are on largely north-facing slopes, from the middle of which rises a unique horseshoe-shaped gravity-flow winery, inspired by the estate’s other claim to fame: as an internationally renowned thoroughbred breeding farm. The wines are a collaboration between the Matte family, who own the estate, and Antinori; they thus benefit from a synthesis of input from top Chilean winemakers and Antinori’s own Renzo Cotarella.
VINEYARD
The grapes come entirely from the estate vineyards surrounding the winery, where vine varieties are matched to each individual plot to maximize the quality of the raw material. They were picked by hand at the end of April.
WINERY
The various parcels were fermented individually with regular pump-overs. After alcoholic fermentation, the must was pressed and transferred to a mix of new and second-fill French oak barrels for malolactic and fourteen months’ maturation. The wine was then bottled without fining or filtration.