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Bodegas El Viejo Almacén de Sauzal

2014 ‘Cariñena’ Huaso de Sauzal, Bodegas El Viejo Almacén de Sauzal

Maule Valley, ChileVintage: 2014

Renan Cancino is one of Chile’s most sought-after viticulturists, and while he has made his name for tending vines, his wine production under the Huaso de Sauza brand is also turning heads. Cancino is a natural winemaker whose philosophy is making wines how they were always made historically in Chile – naked. Everything is done the traditional way here: vines are worked by hand, the vineyards are worked by draft horse, and there has never been any use of irrigation or chemicals.

Cariñena is made from Carignan grafted onto free-standing País rootstock on granitic soils in the town of Sauzal.  Cariñena is a rustic wine with expressive aromas of violet, rose petal, oak, smoke and mushroom.  The palate is brimming with flavours of cherry, strawberry, raspberry, liquorice and anise.   The finish is mouthwatering, like a mountain breeze!

“I have never seen such an artisanal and true to tradition way of making wines. The nose is a clean, focused and pure expression of the grape, with the violets and earthy, slightly rustic aromas. No sulfur is ever used at the winery, yet the wines are so clean and pure that it’s hard to believe. The palate is medium-bodied with some earthy, slightly grainy tannins and with great acidity. This is more serious, closed than the Garnacha, but at a similar, very high-quality level. Simply unbelievable. 5,000 bottles produced.”  93 Luis Gutierrez – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

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100% Cariñena/Carignan

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The story of Renán Cancino and his path to natural winemaking is rooted in Chilean history and culture. His ancestors arrived in Chile from the Iberian Peninsula around the same time that País cuttings travelled from Spain to Chile and became a mainstay in winemaking across the region. Renán makes wine in the way he knows his ancestors made wine – without any additives. After receiving a degree in agronomy, Renán learned to make wine the conventional way; technically correct wines with very little sense of character. It was only after a major earthquake hit Central Chile in 2010 that he had to pull together with almost nothing for a cellar to make the 2010 vintage. With his hometown of Sauzal reduced to rubble, he had much bigger problems to deal with, leaving him no time to correct the wine, or even hardly pay any attention to it. In the end, he fell in love with the wine and changed his path to make wine without any interventions. A man steeped in history, he does not call his wines “natural” instead, “traditional” as a homage to the way his father and grandfather before him made wine. To honour these traditions, Renán ferments his wines in Rauli (Chilean wood barrels) and uses a Zaranda (destemmer) made of local bamboo.

The grapes are hand-harvested in early April, destemmed and spontaneously fermented in open-top fermenters without temperature control, then pressed and raised in used barrels for 1 year, and an additional year in bottle (without added SO2) before release.

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