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Louis-Antoine Luyt Pipeño Pichihuedque 2020

$26.00
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Tasting notes

These are genuinely old vines — roughly 250 years — dry-farmed on clay over granite in the Pichihuedque sub-zone, and the wine tastes like it: dried cranberry, earth, and a warm spice note on the finish that feels like the land, not the cellar. It comes in a liter bottle and costs less than most half-bottles of comparable quality, which is a fact worth sitting with.

BodyFruitTanninAcidity
Dried CranberryEarthBaking SpiceWild Strawberry
Dry/Sweet:Dry
Wine Type:Red Wine
Wine Style:Light Body
Grapes:País
Farming:Organic
Vintage:2020
Alcohol:N/A
Country:Chile
Region:Maule Valley
Appellation:Maule Valley DO
Bottle Size:1000ml
Sugar Level:Zero Added Sugar
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Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

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Producer profile

Louis-Antoine Luyt

Louis-Antoine Luyt was born in Burgundy and first traveled to Chile in 1998 at age 22. After working in restaurants — starting as a dishwasher and eventually becoming a wine buyer — he was introduced to Hector Vergara, then the only Master of Wine in South America, and enrolled in Vergara's sommelier school in Santiago. Struck by the homogeneity of Chilean wine despite the quality of the old-vine parcels he was discovering, Luyt returned to France to study viticulture and oenology in Beaune. There he befriended Mathieu Lapierre and worked five consecutive harvests at Domaine Marcel Lapierre in Villié-Morgon, where he was introduced to minimal-intervention natural winemaking.

Luyt launched his Chilean project in 2006 with the goal of preserving old vineyards and working with independent small farmers rather than the industrial co-ops that dominate the country's wine production. He sources fruit and rents vines from farmers across the Maule Valley who dry-farm organically, often plowing by horse. Chile's freedom from phylloxera means these parcels retain original rootstock vines ranging from 200 to over 300 years old. Starting with the 2018 vintage, day-to-day viticulture and cellar work are fully managed by the individual farmers, with Luyt returning to Chile at key moments including harvest and early vinification. The farmer's name appears on the back label of each Pipeño bottling.

Winemaking across the Pipeño range follows traditional Chilean practice: hand-harvesting, manual destemming over a zaranda, spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in open-top wooden lagares, and brief aging of around two months in large wooden tanks called pipas. A small amount of sulfur is added and the wine is lightly filtered before bottling in one-liter format. The approach is deliberately non-interventionist and oriented toward the light, everyday drinking style the farmers themselves produce.

Wine region

Maule Valley, Chile

The Maule Valley is Chile's largest wine region, stretching roughly 100 kilometers at approximately 35 degrees south latitude, around 290 kilometers south of Santiago. It runs from the Andean foothills in the east to the Coastal Range in the west, with the Maule River flowing east to west and moderating the climate. The region has a Mediterranean climate with warm days, significant diurnal temperature shifts driven by cold Andean winds at night, and most rainfall concentrated in winter months. It is one of the cooler growing areas within Chile's Central Valley.

Soils vary considerably across the region. In the dryland interior and coastal zones — where the oldest vines grow without irrigation — soils are predominantly decomposed granite with varying clay content. The Pichihuedque sub-zone specifically sits on deep clay soils over a granite base. Because Chile was never affected by phylloxera, many vineyards in Maule retain pre-phylloxera vines on their original rootstock, some estimated at 200 to 350 years old. País (also known as Listán Prieto or Mission) has been planted in Maule since the 16th century and dominates the dryland old-vine parcels. Carignan, Cinsault, and Semillón also have deep roots in the region.

Frequently asked question

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

See here our shipping policy.

Signature on delivery is mandatory for wine deliveries. Please make sure someone is at the shipping address to sign for the package.

If applicable, please consider delivering the package to a business address to ensure someone is available to sign for the package.

We also have the option of delivering the package to a Carrier's store for pickup. Please reach out to us to coordinate.

Carrier will try to delivery a package up to three times before returning the package to us.

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If you miss a delivery and a package gets returned to us we have two options:

1) Reship the package right away: due to the very high cost of shipping and returns, we must charge a re-shipping fee to be determined based on package size and shipping destination.

2) Consolidate the returned package with your next order: this option is free of charge and it's the most popular option.

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