Louis-Antoine Luyt Pipeño Portezuelo 2019
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| Management number | 253563817 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$10.00 | Model Number | 253563817 | ||
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Pipeño Portezuelo is sourced from 150-year-old, dry-farmed vines tended by farmer Patricio Martinez in the Portezuelo commune of Chile's Itata Valley. The blend is 95% País and 5% Cinsault — known locally as Cargadora — grown on granitic soils that Louis-Antoine Luyt has likened to those of Morgon's Côte du Py in Beaujolais. Chile was never struck by phylloxera, so these vines grow on their original rootstock.
Grapes are hand-harvested and destemmed using a traditional zaranda, then fermented with native yeasts in open-top wooden lagares in the primeur style typical of how local huaso farmers have always made wine for their own tables. A small amount of sulfur is added at bottling. The wine is sold in one-liter bottles.
Of all the Luyt Pipeños, Portezuelo is consistently the lightest-bodied and least tannic. It drinks like a chilled Beaujolais cousin from the southern hemisphere: crunchy red cherry, a flicker of cranberry, and earthy, granitic lift on the finish. The 1-liter format and modest ABV make it a genuine everyday table wine.
Starting with the 2018 vintage, viticulture and winemaking were fully entrusted to the farmers Louis-Antoine has worked with for over a decade. His name is on the label; the farmer's name appears on the back. Luyt travels to Chile for harvest and early vinification each year.
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