Antiyal Carmenere

Antiyal · Maipo Valley, Chile

Antiyal Carmenere comes from the best single plot of Antiyal, located in El Escorial in Maipo. It matured exclusively in egg-shaped cement vats which gives the wine a great amplitude on the palate. The wine has great depth and fine grained tannins, the aim being to bring the purest and most honest expression of this emblematic grape and showcase the noble volcanic soils of the Maipo mountain.

Farming
Certified organic by Ecocert
Biodynamic by Demeter

Harvest type
Hand harvested

Varietal
Carmenere

Age of Vineyeard
Planted in 2003

Vessel
12 months in cement egg

Vineyard Yield
35 hl/ha

Soil Type
Andecita (alluvial, coluvial, basalt)

Annual production
2,000 bottles

Vinification
Grapes are hand harvested, and are selected before crushing.Tanks are gravity feed. The grapes are fermented in small stainless steel tanks of 3 to 5 tons, fermentation takes place naturally with native yeast, at 26° C, with soft pumping over and long maceration of almost a month. After pressing the wine is racked to 3 concrete ovoide tanks, called "egg", of 670L, to make malolactic fermentation and aging. The wine stays in the concrete egg without racking for 12 months. The wine is then bottled and aged 1 year before release.