Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 FRFLSH From an 11-hectare biodynamic domaine

From an 11-hectare biodynamic domaine in southern Burgundy's Loché village

From three villages: Mareuil-le-Port

a touch of jalapeño spiciness

small growers

this is a piece of California wine history rather than a current wine

Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 FRFLSH From an 11-hectare biodynamic domaineRafael Tirado planted his Maule vineyard with the rows running every which way, one block laid out as an actual labyrinth, which is how the estate got its name. Up at 1,800 feet on granite in the Andean foothills near Colbun, he farms Pais, the grape Spanish missionaries brought to Chile centuries ago and that almost everyone spent the last hundred years dismissing as peasant wine. Arcillas means clays, and that is the point: wild yeast fermentation,