Cacique Maravilla Pipeño 2021
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| Management number | 253563810 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$11.20 | Model Number | 253563810 | ||
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Pipeño is a centuries-old Chilean wine style — the word refers to wine drawn directly from the pipa (barrel) and drunk by farmers in the fields. Cacique Maravilla's version is 100% País, the Listán Prieto grape brought to Chile from the Canary Islands during the Spanish conquest and now considered Chile's most historically significant variety. The vines at Yumbel were first planted around 1766 on trumao soil — volcanic sand formed by redeposited ash over a lava river — and some are over 250 years old, making them pre-phylloxera survivors.
In the cellar, grapes are hand-harvested and destemmed using a zaranda, a traditional bamboo screen. Fermentation is spontaneous in open-top lagars of raulí, a native Chilean pink oak. No pressing: only free-run juice is used. The wine is moved by gravity into raulí pipas for aging on fine lees, then bottled unfiltered and unfined with no added sulfur.
The result is light-bodied and high-acid with fresh red fruit, a flinty smokiness from the volcanic soil, and a slight earthy, herbal edge. It is best served slightly chilled and is packaged in a one-liter bottle — the traditional format for a wine that was never meant to be rationed.
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