Antiyal

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.

Some pictures of spring-time in Antiyal

Well ,we pressed our first wine on Saturday May 2, Alvaros birthday, so he spent it pressing, our first wine, our Cabernet Sauvignon from around our house in Alto Jahuel. Alvaro finds it deep , full of fruit, and good concentration, now its doing malolactic fermentation in barrels , 5 barrels from our homegrown, and one barrel of press.
Monday we harvested one of our two Carmeneres from Escorial, and on tuesday we crushed some Syrah from Alvaros mom in Isla de Maipo. Tomorrow Saturday May 9, full moon we will be crushing our last Carmenere from Escorial. So we hope it goes well.
After the harvest we waited for the moon at the winery with some friends and had an asado al palo , made by Ian our friend. He started at 3 and we ate around 8 at night, beautiful day.
Monday we got the oldest Carmenere we get from Isla de Maipo planted in 1984 by Alvaros father.
Great grapes.
Our press went bad, so we are waiting for it to be repaired as we are starting to press our Cabernet sauvignon from Escorial, after 25 days of total maceration, the ones we crushed on April 17 and 18.
Today May 12 we have our first rain, so its been a very nice harvest season, and now this little rain is very welcome.
So this afternoon just before the rain we sowed our flowers in between the vines, just in time!
We are planning to get our last grapes in from Isla de Maip o during friday and saturday 15, 16 May!

Hello friends,

I am Marina and I work with Alvaro at Antiyal. We are just beginning harvest and are going to  try and keep up to date with new information and pictures this harvest. This past Saturday April 4, we started crushing our Cabernet Sauvignon from around the house. We had a terrific visit from Jordan and Jane from New York that came and visited the winery on Friday (and when I told them we were harvesting on Saturday at 6 am they were the first to get here.) Thank you both for being a great help!

This year we have three new machines a modern de-stemer ( Bucher ) and a selection table, and for us it has been like going to the moon!! Before the manual work was very heavy, so we couldn’t believe it when we took like two hours to crush, before it was like 8!!

No more bending over bins to select the grapes, and take leaves and stems out! (We are getting older so we need the help!) This year too we are crushing on our roof like we have always planned. In this way the grapes fall with gravity directly into the fermenters.
Our summer has been a bit hot, but now the nights are cooling down so we hope to get good rippening for our Cabs, Syrahs and Carmenere that are still waiting to be picked.

This year too we will pick a little Petit Verdot we have. This week we haven’t crushed but I think on monday 13 we go on with some of our Syrah.

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