Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 Old Rioja The Blanc is a textbook

The Blanc is a textbook southern Rhone white blend — Roussanne-led (with Marsanne and Viognier)

with a slower evolution and a longer life ahead

or simply over ice

Bursting with raspberries and pomegranate

Laberinto Valle del Maule Pais Arcillas 2022 Old Rioja The Blanc is a textbookRafael 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,