Dominio del Cuarzo Itata Pais Itata Secano Interior 2021 Consignment this is Merlot from Muscadet

this is Merlot from Muscadet country

it sits between a liqueur and an aperitivo

Sweet agave with red pepper spice and fennel

The ingredients sourced are 70% organic and are composted after extraction

which is rather the point

Dominio del Cuarzo Itata Pais Itata Secano Interior 2021 Consignment this is Merlot from MuscadetThese vines were planted before Chile had electricity. Felipe Ramirez started Dominio del Cuarzo in 2019 with a plot of roughly 130 year old Pais bush vines less than a hectare of them in Nipas, in Itata's Secano Interior, where the soils are sandy silt over black basalt near the river and nobody irrigates anything. Pais came over with the conquistadors and then spent centuries being written off as peasant wine, which is precisely why gems like this