Old Vine Pale
Carignan-Mataró
2o17 – Lot 73
“The 2017 is a bit of a geeky rosé/chilled red, perhaps a little more austere than in the previous year, from the same origin. It has a very tasty palate that literally makes you hungry for food. This has to be the best version of this unusual wine to date, which is especially remarkable given the conditions of the 2017 vintage. It has moderate alcohol and high acidity, which got me salivating…” – LG
Alcohol: 12.6
pH 3,05
Acidez: 6,23
Azúcar residual: 1,7
11 barrels Carignan & 1 barrel Mataró
3518 bottles filled
In a nutshell :
- Is it a rosé or a chilled red? Answer: “It’s the first glass of a long Chilean lunch”
- 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:
With such short skin contact this was one of the least complicated wines to make in 2017. It is somewhat austere in the spirit of the original 2012 and e like this very much.
Denominación de Origen: Truquilemu / Empedrado / Maule Valley (Secano Interior)
Tipo: First glass of a long Chilean lunch.
Tipo de uva: Carignan with a smidgen of Mataró.
the Vineyard:
It is hard to imagine someone having the patience and deep pockets 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 previous vintage to a pie de cuba)
- No temp control (besides opening closing windows) open tank, no nada
Elevage:
- Aged in barrels over one winter— barrels third use or more.
How many lots of this wine are there?
Just one each year.
Previous Truquilemu Vineyard bottlings:
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- Old Vine Pale Truquilemu Vineyard Lot 63 – 2016
- Old Vine Pale Truquilemu Vineyard Lot 53 – 2015
- Old Vine Pale Truquilemu Vineyard Lot 41 – 2014
- Old Vine Pale Truquilemu Vineyard Lot 38 – 2013
- Old Vine Pale Truquilemu Vineyard Lot 33 – 2012
The 73rd wine we have bottled produced since 2001 and thus it is silkscreened Lot # 73
T a s t i n g N o t e s
House tasting note:
A cheeky chilled red with a very tasty palate: vivid notes of pomegranate, cranberries, wild strawberries and citrus with herbs– that literally makes you hunger for food. Oily on the palate with crunchy berries and linear acidity to match mid-weight phenolics. Delicious and serious. A light red for chilling not a rosé—full stop.
Note : this wine by the glass will make the most macho of men break down and sing the praises of pink. Put it by the glass and/or offer a taste and soon you will have everyone pointing at the bottle to ask: What else do you have by these people?
Flexible food match / try with sea urchins / foie gras / rich fish like salmon sushi / Thai food with heat . . .
Ageability
This wine is not for the terrace of summer. We initially released it in the Fall just when the lousy rosés get put away.
The 2017 vintage is crisp and austere made to be imbibed during its first few years. We do have bottles of the early vintages and perhaps due to the wines tremendous acidity (3,o pH) it not keeps it freshness, but it develops complexity and pleasantly surprises.
Perspective: we opened 2012 last year and it was a delight still fresh yet with a complexity that was sublime. (words of Luis Gutierrez not mine)
Best drinking
2019-2024
Critics´ Tasting Notes
Descorchados 2019 Patricio Tapia
Old Vine Pale Rosé 2017 Best Rosé from Chile (2nd yr running)
– 93 pts Patricio Tapia
Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate # 239
Old Vine Pale, Truquilemu Vineyard Empedrado, Carignan & Mataró 2017 – Lot # 73 – 91 Pts
The 2017 Old Vine Pale is a bit of a geeky rosé/chilled red, perhaps a little more austere than in the previous year, from the same origin. It has a very tasty palate that literally makes you hungry for food. This has to be the best version of this unusual wine to date, which is especially remarkable given the conditions of the 2017 vintage. It has moderate alcohol and high acidity, which got me salivating… This was produced from 11 barrels of Carignan and one of Mataró. 3,518 bottles were filled in October 2017. Drink 2018 – 2023 Luis Gutierrez
Notes on Previous Vintages from this parcel
Descorchados 2018 Patricio Tapia
Old Vine Pale Rosé 2016 Best Rosé from Chile
- 93 pts
Dominado por una acidez deliciosa, este tinto se mueve con nervio por la boca, como su tuviera su propia luz. Delicioso.
Vinous – Antonio Galloni, Feb 2017
Old Vine Pale Truquilemu Vineyard Carignan & Mataró Field-blend 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 flavors 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 Carignan & Mataró 2016 – Lot # 63 – 90 Pts
One of eleven single vineyard bottlings from Garage Wine Co, the 2016 Old Vine Pale is a rosé sourced from Triquilemu, 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 Triquilemu 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.
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 carignan, garnacha and monastrell.
Pictures of this vineyard taken over the past few years:
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Waking Truqui 5 weeks before harvest #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Each year end of November one corner blooms in these small white flowers for a couple of weeks #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
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 ...
Prepping blends for parcels like Truquilemu - the trick is to have a big table #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Taco en Empedrado #empedrado #empedradochile #muniempedrado #prefieroelmaule Traffic jam in Empedrado #gwcotruquilemuvineyard Don Cristian y René arando la Vega ...
Like she were modeling for a MEC catalogue (20yrs ago;-) @singleferments walking Truqui #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Old vine cricket #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) ...
Cristian Cancino tras Máquina en Truquilemu #gwcotruquilemuvineyard Old vines revived in Truquilemu ...
Pilar @singleferments explica mugrones y migró near en Truqui #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
We have many women working with us at Garage, and we shall get some shots up in these days, but for now just this of our persevering leader Pilar. #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Tomo II Don José breaking up the column of wisdom in Truquilemu #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #dryfarming ...
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 ...
@singleferments gets better ratings than anything so more from our co-founder Pilar Miranda #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
#Repost garagewineco with make_repost
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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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This buds for you #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
@singleferments 9-10 years ago in Truqui #gwcotruquilemuvineyard
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José sacando el cameon en Truqui #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #empedrado ...
Last shot of the mare we missed harvesting in Truqui this year [Maquina is her name]. Don Juvenal helping with the gamelas. Hechando de menos la yegua: Máquina este año. #gwcotruquilemuvineyard
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Don Cristian Arando #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Still prepping USA - todavia preparando EEUU #gwcovigno #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #vignadoresdecarignan #vignadores_de_carignan ...
“Maquina” steps out Truquilemu Vineyard #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcoharvest2018 #gwcofieldworks ...
Sequestered and bored? Raoul will be carrying your basket today and Armando receiving. Welcome to Truquilemu— the promised land of old vine head trained Cariñena. Free the vines no more trellises! #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcoharvest2020 #gwcovirtualharvest Take a seat and ride aboard one of our picking baskets in a vicarious harvest with us #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcoharvest2020 ...
Sequestered and bored? Take a ride in one of Lucho’s gamelas. Welcome to Truquilemu— the promised land of old vine head trained Cariñena. Here are picking for our Vigno 2020. @vignadoresdecarignan @vigno Free the vines no more trellises! #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcoharvest2020 #gwcovirtualharvest ...
Remembering past harvests bringing the fruit in with a horse and carruncho. This year we kept the group picking much smaller and went slower. We simply did not need the yegua to help. #gwcotruquilemuvineyard
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Missing the horses cont’d #gwcotruquilemuvineyard
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Getting the baskets out ! #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Last day picking and the folks all begin to take the P out of me about taking pics. Such posers, but what a posse! #gwcoharvest2017 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Carignan in the Secano Maulino #gwcolately #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Finishing up with the picking - #gwcoharvest2017 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Por comenzar en Truquilemu #gwcoharvest2017 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Cutting Cariñena in Truqui Truquilemu Vineyard #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcoharvest2018 #gwcofieldworks ...
First basket of Truqui - Truquilemu #gwcoharvest2017 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Cutting Cariñena in Truquilemu Vineyard #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcoharvest2018 #gwcofieldworks ...
La Maquina a full en Truqui - Truquilemu #gwcoharvest2017 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Don Hugo -- Truqui #gwcoharvest2017 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Loving the sleigh (carrucho) tracks in the foreground. Truquilemu #gwcoharvest2017 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Maquina at work - Truquilemu #gwcoharvest2017 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Old bush-head vines #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcoharvest2017 ...
Early morning picking final bits of Truqui #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcoharvest2017 ...
Don Sebastian y Don Alvaro Raul Jorge y la Maquina - last pickings in Truqui for 2o17 #gwcoharvest2017 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
A pucking morning in Truqui #gwcoharvest2017 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Garaje con "je" #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcogente ...
More picking in Truqui #gwcoharvest2017 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
@singleferments offering Reiki for Vineyards this vintage. #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcogente ...
Don Alvaro makes way for Bestia #gwcoharvest2017 #gwcotruquilemuvineyard ...
Portrait of Pais / Country Pic / Retrato Nacional #gwcofam #gwcotruquilemuvineyard #gwcoharvest2018 ...