Old Vine Pale Truquilemu Vineyard Cariñena & Mataró 2016 Lot #63
Old Vine Pale
Truquilemu Vineyard
Empedrado – Maule Valley
Cariñena Mataró Field-blend
2016
Lot #63
8 Barrels Cariñena 1 Barrel Mataró
2521 bottles filled – Nov 2016
Acidity (g / l) 6,73
pH 3,1
Residual Sugar (g / l) 2,8
Alcohol (% vol) 13,1
In a Nutshell
- 1 of 1o wines from single parcels
- Grower / partner Orellana family
- Ancestral farming cultivating vineyard by hand and horse
- Truquilemu is perhaps the freshest corner of The Maule Secano where reds just manage to ripen. This light red is cut earlier than the regular Truquilemu Vineyard.
- Truquilemu Vineyard is found on the Coastal Range of mountains (much older and slower to cool than the Andes) Soils are granitic and sub-soils have cracked granite that allow roots to get deep into cracks.
The Vintage:
We removed the Garnacha from Old Vine Pale this year because the wine without out quite simply harked back to the 2o12 vintage when we first bottled an Old Vine Pale. Thus the 2o16 is austere and complex—a year for the die-hards and or those who simply want to get hungry.
The Vineyard
It is hard to imagine someone having the patience and financial where with all to plant a red vineyard in this part of Empedrado. (It is simply so cool many years) It must have taken forever for these vineyards to have come into their own. Thank god someone had the foresight to be patient all those years ago whilst the vineyard could grow old.
The Making :
- Ancestral farming by hand and horse
- Naturally fermented with native yeasts
- Fermented without skins in two parts: part of the blend pressed out like a white and part made as a red without skins.
- Aged in barrels over ONE winter— barrels third use or more.
- Yeasts native (we add Truquilemu wine from the previous vintage to a pie de cuba)
- No temp control (besides opening closing windows) open tank, no nada
- Pinch of sulphites after Winter has passed whether malolactic has finished or not.
Barrel Ageing:
- Aged in barrels over one winter— barrels third use or more.
Tasting & Critics Notes
Vinous – Antonio Galloni, Feb 2017
Old Vine Pale Truquilemu Vineyard Empedrado Carignan & Mataró 2016 – Lot # 63 – 91 Pts
(aged in neutral French oak barrels for three months; pH 3.2) Deep lurid pink. Fresh raspberry, blood orange and candied rose on the expressive nose. Pliant and seamless in texture, offering intense red fruit and floral pastille flavours that are lifted and braced by a spine of juicy acidity. Puts on weight with air while maintaining urgency, and finishes sappy and very long, showing excellent focus and lingering raspberry character. I’d consider this suave, insanely easy-to-drink wine as more “light red” than “rosé.” Drink 2018 – 2023 Josh Raynolds
Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate # 23o
Old Vine Pale Truquilemu Vineyard Empedrado Carignan & Mataró 2016 – Lot # 63 – 90 Pts
One of nine single vineyard bottlings from Garage Wine Co, the 2016 Old Vine Pale is a rosé sourced from Truquilemu, Empedrado in the Maule Valley. It is a blend of mostly Carignan and a little Mataró (Monastrell or Mourvedre) from the vines of the Orellana family who follow ancestral farming traditions, cultivating everything by hand and horse. Derek Mossman considers Truquilemu the freshest corner of dry-farmed Maule where reds just manage to ripen. It’s not clear if this is a rosé or a pale red, he now tells me this is a pale red intended to be chilled. 2016 is an austere year, and the wine is 13.1% alcohol with a low pH (3.1) and remarkable acidity. It aged in barrel for one winter. Light, spicy and musky. They have changed the style by taking Garnacha out and making it more austere, removing the sensation of sweetness. This is marked Lot #63. There were seven barrels of Carignan and one of Mataró, so some 2,200 bottles in total. It was bottled in November 2016. I also tasted the first version of this wine, from 2012, and it was still very much alive.
Notes upon past vintages of the same parcel
James Suckling . com
Old Vine Pale Truquilemu Vineyard Empedrado Carignan & Mataró 2015 – Lot # 53 – 91 Pts
This is the best rosé in Chile? Full body, with lots of cherry, watermelon and lemon character. Bright acidity. Some phenolics. So delicious – and serious. A blend of Cariñena and Monastrell.
Don’t just stand there posing Lucho - it’s full. Tanks pressed action recomiences in Truqui.#gwcoharvest2021 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard
Whole bunches / racimo entero work but some parcels respond better to stems / raspón being reintroduced. There are wonderful tannins and a certain tension that comes from just the right amount. Different small tanks help us define just how much is enough. These tanks are then put in barrels where we can taste over almost two years to see what we like best before the wine is blended just before bottling. It is like having multiple harvest each year. With tone cofermentation is the answer but only after we get to know the fruit over many years. After a decade in Truqui we have a handle on things seen here. #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcoharvest2021
Don Oswaldo on the truck and behind the wheel of our furgon de lujo this year. “Wash your hands / masks on / space yourselves out better please” — he has been a great help keeping people safe over harvest. Truth is almost everyone in the posse is vaccinated and we have kept well to ourselves throughout. Working with farmers off the beaten track who are mostly self sufficient with their own local crops has had its advantages through all of this... #gwcotruquilemuvineyard
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The greener bit is where we cut the fruit for our Old Vine Pale Rosé #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcooldvinepale
Last day picking in Truqui this harvest —a lot more work with covid but some atomic fruit we are pleased with... ... besides the Rosé you will all have to wait 3-4 years to taste 👅 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard
Waking Truqui 5 weeks before harvest #gwcotruquilemuvineyard
Cheers for the tailgate - zoom tasting today fir Chilereport @timatkinmw And thanks to @coravin for making such tastings more practical. #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcosyrah #gwcoharvest2021
Cariñena or as the French spell it Carignan — Cariñena de la Tierra prometida de Truquilemu #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcoharvest2021
Old Vine Pale appearing in the trusted hands of @joefattorini by way of @coravin — an older vintage stand up well. An episode dedciated to Rosé wines wineries owned by celebrities but alas . . . (the OVP is up at minute 15 Mom!) Episode 27 | The Wine Show @ HOME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Wo93IC2Q8 #gwcooldvinepale #gwcotruquilemuvineyard @walkerwodehouse
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Un tremendo saludo al equipo Garage Poda UTI quienes han trabajado para revivir una sección de Pais olvidado en Truqui en estas semanas. De arbustos salvajes se han encontrado la vid viva y cultivado intensivamente como este mugrón para que revive- Ester, Don Hugo, Señora Luz, y Jose son mis héroes esta semana. Todos pensaron que el canadiense rayo sus cables pero si se puede. #gwcotruquilemuvineyard A special salute this evening to our Intensive Care Pruning Team who have worked the impossible and begun to revive a section of vines forgotten neglected and burned and now ... The rest of the troop (no names Cristián) thought I was nuts but the proof is in the pudding. A special to handpickedsweden for their support of Fieldcraft this year. We have only just begun . . . #gwcofieldcraft #gwcofieldworks #gwcofieldcraftbottlings
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Old Vine Pale Rosé — the making of There are a few rows of vines that have more vigor. After years of trying to make them red in 2012 we made a pink experiment. This our tenth vintage of Old Vine Pale.It has sold out faste than all other labels pretty much every year. But that doesn’t stop people from trying to ‘help us’ make it differently. #gwcoharvest2021 #gwcooldvinepale #gwcotruquilemuvineyard
Each year end of November one corner blooms in these small white flowers for a couple of weeks #gwcotruquilemuvineyard
The boys lending a hand in Truquilemu 2012 harvest. #gwcotruquilemuvineyard Today boys helping with filling sample bottles for Zoom tastings - great help indeed. Nuestros chicos ayudando en Truqui Cosecha 2012 (hoy ayudan preparando las catas zoom)
Mon chef ne prend pas le temps de publier (mon travail qui plus est) alors je le fais ici !
Et je dois dire que le vin est vraiment bon et qu’il mérite amplement ce score
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Un tremendo saludo al equipo Garage Poda UTI quienes han trabajado para revivir una sección de Pais olvidado en Truqui en estas semanas. De arbustos salvajes se han encontrado la vid viva y cultivado intensivamente como este mugrón para que revive- Ester, Don Hugo, Señora Luz, y Jose son mis héroes esta semana. Todos pensaron que el canadiense rayo sus cables pero si se puede. #gwcotruquilemuvineyard A special salute this evening to our Intensive Care Pruning Team who have worked the impossible and begun to revive a section of vines forgotten neglected and burned and now ... The rest of the troop (no names Cristián) thought I was nuts but the proof is in the pudding. A special to @handpickedsweden for their support of Fieldcraft this year. We have only just begun . . . #gwcofieldcraft #gwcofieldworks #gwcofieldcraftbottlings
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El vino VIGNO GARAGE proviene de Truquilemu, un viñedo que cultivamos a mano y a caballo, con el arduo trabajo de nuestro viñador Cristian Cancino y su yegua Máquina.
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