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Friends we had a very great Harvest, but one that with us all very tired. You can see some photos of Harvest, crush moving barrels to put new wine in etc in the photo gallery below.

Many thanks to the whole team, Ramon Gonzales, Ramon Sanchez, Ramon Rubio  ( the Ramones) Pablo Yañez and  friends and all who helped, William that came from California, Christian from Colombia.

Well on Monday may 31 we had the visit of Rene Piamonte our biodinamic consultant who comes ones a year to teach us a little each time, so you can see some photos of our farm day, where we made preps, like 503 with camomile flowers, also the 506 with dandelion and also the 505  prep with oak bark, we are happy as Its the first time we make these last three preps locally with our own flowers and products.

Now is the time we put together our compost, with all the left overs from winemaking, the  stems, the skins, and the manure from our own animals, this is the only way we fertilize, so all comes from inside our farms.

We are also now putting in our compost made last year (2009) which has a year, now we are opening the soil and putting the compost in, for afterwords sowing our flowers in between our vines.

The work in the farm never stops.

We are also preparing some orders, very busy labelling and I am happy to tell you we participated in the HONG KONG Vinexpo with the Renaissance des Appellations group and  our friends from Hong Kong , Louise and Stuart showed our wines there. Thanks so much.

Friends hello, its us writing here in our 2010 harvest!! A little shaky at first, but here we are. We started crush on April 20 with a beautiful day harvesting our Cabernet Sauvignon Olivos from around our house.

We have gone on with our Cabernet from Escorial, and some of our Syrah

Fantastic weather, no rain, healthy grapes, a great harvest.

High Praise for Global Vineyard Chilean Wines
Antiyal 2007 | 92+ points
“Sexy, highly perfumed aromas of blackberry and cherry preserves, smoky herbs. Juicy, sharply defined
red and dark berry flavors are complemented by cracked pepper, cinnamon and a kiss of candied flowers. Seductive, open-knit and delicious now.”

Kuyen 2007 | 91 points
“High-pitched red and dark berry aromas are complemented by deeper notes of subtle oak spice and lico-
rice. Offers lush black raspberry and boysenberry flavors braced by zesty minerality. This suave, open-knit blend finishes with strong cut and clarity”

91 | Antiyal    $55 USD
2007 Valle del Maipo This vintage of Alvaro Espinoza’s own biodynamic wine holds to the style of previous releases, with warm fruit flavors and a lush, friendly texture. Composed of 52 % Carmenere, blended with syrah and cabernet, this is an herbal, spicy, black-fruited wine for lamb curry. Global Vineyard Importers, Berkeley, CA - Patricio Tapia

Tous les défauts agronomiques peuvent etre corrigés en laboratoire… Mais c sont aussi ses imperfections qui donnent á un cru son caractere! Alvaro Espinoza domaine Antiyal

Article from Le Monde - read more

This is an article from Time Magazine recently about the makers of our Egg fermenter. Interesting!
Time Magazine article - Numblot Wine Vessels