Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 JULY42024 and until pretty recently almost

and until pretty recently almost nobody outside Chile knew it

These vines were planted around the time Chile was fighting for its independence — roughly 200 years old

Dominique Joseph's family domain certifies all 12 hectares as organic

austere half of Côte-Rôtie

Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 JULY42024 and until pretty recently almostRafael 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,