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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
This is an article from Time Magazine recently about the makers of our Egg fermenter. Interesting!
Time Magazine article – Numblot Wine Vessels
I’ve been lazy to write for the last weeks, sorry, but I will try and put you up to date. We pressed our last wine, Carmenere from Escorial, on June 15, last day! Now we are busy racking our 2008 blend from barrels to the tanks to make the final blends, for bottling in November some time. This year we got around 21 new french oak barrels…the hardest part on the finances!
In the vineyard, we have gone on putting compost in, ploughing and closing the soil, we had around 50mm of a good rain on Friday 20 and 21 of June, winter solstice for us. Its been very cold and wet. We burried our 500 prep, horn manure, around June 1, the manure is from our cow. and we burried the yarrow prep 502, near the animals. This next week end we start to prune.
Last wednesday we got our new egg tank!! another crazy thing, but great, we will put our Carmenere from Escorial there, so we will have to wait for 2009 to taste it. But it seems that it should be very nice and expressive, as the egg tank uses the golden number for its building proportions. This is a number ( proportion ) that we find in nature, so this is really exciting for us!