The Wine: Chacoli Pét-Nat Negre 2021
Cacique Maravilla Chacoli Pét-Nat Negre 2021 natural wine made from Pais grapes farmed sustainably in Chile's Bio Bio Valley. This is an undisgorged pet nat. Please chill the wine very well, open super carefully on the sink, and have a glass ready. Pour immediately into the glass. Please, please, please, this wine can be explosive, just open it carefully and pour immediately; don't remove the crown cap and wait to see what happens :)
The Producer: Cacique Maravilla
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’. (Source: Creamwine.com)
The Region: Bio Bio Valley • Chile