Agricola Luyt - 'el Mismo Pais' - Pais - Maule Valley, CL - 2022 - 1000ml

The grapes are sourced from a two hectare of non-irrigated, non-treated vines growing on sand and decomposed granite.
Winemaking:50% of the grapes see a whole-cluster carbonic maceration for eight days, the other 50% is destemmed and vinified traditionally. The two are blended after fermentations are finished and the wine is bottled one month after harvest in a primeur style. Less than a gram of S02 per hectoliter was added at bottling.

First arrived in Chile in 1998, Louis Antoine started working in a restaurant, and later began to make wine. After a few years splitting his time between France and Chile and gaining a diploma in oenology at Beaune, he founded his own wine company with the help of his cousin Matthieu de Genevraye, named Clos Ouvert. After the 2010 earthquake, Clos Ouvert ceased to trade. Louis-Antoine continued the adventure by refocusing his aim towards the making of quality natural wines. With his conviction, dedication and hard work he managed to impulse a renewal of the pais grape and to give value to small scale traditional chilean wines. His personality, his way of being, and his radical choices made him a well-known pioneer of chilean alternative and ecological winemaking.