A Boire: 'Blinto'

A Boire: 'Blinto'

$26.00
$26.00
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"After many months the new Chilean project of Basile Wehrlé has landed in California.  You may remember Basiles project in Alsace called “À Boire" where he worked under the tutelage of Patrick Meyer. Finding the desire to move back to Chile, where Basile had spent time working for Louis Antoine Luyt in 2016, Basile is now set up in the Itata Valley with his own vines making his own wines & Sour Beers. In December of 2022 we had the pleasure to visit these wild vines, some of over 100s of years of age.  The result is aromatic whites of Moscatell, and smokey reds of Pais, and some mixes of the two, all with great drinkability and freshness." - the importer

If you're a lover of orange wines, this will be for you. It's a combination of light maceration white (i.e. a fresher orange wine) and a direct press red (i.e. rose). Wehrlé is working both with his own grapes and with grapes grown by neighbors, but in the case of this wine, they're all from his own vineyards. Quite low alcohol, making it extremely easy to drink. On the nose, there are lovely aromatics. The wine is lightly smokey, low acid, with notes of tart watermelon rind and first of the season red fruits.