Spending 2 months on skins, it is slightly bitter yet floral and usually a little juicy as well. It’s also old vines in volcanic soil which add lovely complexity. Muscat is one of our favorite expressions of an orange wine and for the price, this one is one of the best you can get!
Pairing Suggestions: Asian Food, Picnic Food, Spicy Food
Bio-Bio, Chile
Type: Orange | Vintage: 2021 | Sulfites: 25 mg/L | Alcohol: 13.4% | Varietal: Moscatel de Alejandria, Corinto | Production: Organic, Vegan | Importer: Selections de la Viña
Producer Profile
Manuel Moraga Gutierrez is the owner and winemaker of Cacique Maravilla, a winery focused on traditional and non-interventionist Chilean wines in Yumbel in the Bio-Bio Valley of Chile’s Southern Regions. Manuel is the seventh generation of the Gutierrez family to call Yumbel home, and at least the fourth generation to tend vines. His great, great, great, great, great grandfather, Francisco Gutierrez Gutierrez, arrived in Chile in 1750 from the Canary Islands in search of gold and eventually amassed enough treasure to acquire land in Yumbel, some of which has remained in the family and is still owned by Manuel Moraga today. Francisco Gutierrez earned the respect of the local indigenous Mapuche people and was given the nickname ‘Cacique Maravilla’ (roughly translating to ‘Magnificent Chief’).