Terroir Sonoro Nitanto Tinto 2021 (750ml)

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Producer	Terroir Sonoro
Country	Chile
Region	Itata Valley
Varietal	Pais,  Cinsault
Vintage	2021
Sku	00764
Size	750ml

   

Tinto Nitanto literally means “red (not so much)”, and is a wine that came about after Juan invited his father-in-law to help with blending trials in 2014. Juan and the rest of the team would spit the wine into a bucket as they tasted each batch for blending. His father-in-law did not (would not, and could not) spit. He said “make me a wine with less alcohol.”

In 2021, the wine is a 50/50 blend of Cinsault and País from 50–70-year-old ungrafted bush-head, dry-farmed, organic vines, planted to granitic soils whose roots extend 10 meters in depth. The two grapes come from the same vineyard with the País growing at the bottom of the slope, and the Cinsault at the top. The Cinsault is harvested early, at the same time as the grapes used of El Impostor. This lends the wine lightness and freshness. The grapes are destemmed using the traditional zaranda and fermented separately in stainless steel. The wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered, with sulfites only added at the start of fermentation.