{"product_id":"pipeno-pichihuedque-louis-antoine-luyt-chile-natural-wine","title":"Pipeño Pichihuedque 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003ePichihuedque is a sub-zone of the Maule Valley where farmer Miguel Alvear tends dry-farmed, organically grown País bush vines estimated to be around 250 years old, rooted in deep clay soils over granite. The vines are on their original rootstock — Chile was never struck by phylloxera — and are worked without irrigation. Louis-Antoine Luyt sources this fruit (or in some years, finished wine made by the farmer) and names each Pipeño bottling after its specific sub-region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFermentation follows traditional Chilean method: bunches are hand-harvested, manually destemmed over a zaranda (a slatted wooden frame), and fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in open-top wooden lagares. The wine is then aged briefly — around two months — in large wooden tanks called pipas, from which the name Pipeño is derived. A small dose of sulfur is added at bottling, along with a light filtration before the wine is sealed in one-liter bottles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePichihuedque sits in the middle of the Pipeño range in terms of structure: fuller-bodied and more tannic than Portezuelo, but lighter than Coronel del Maule or Carrizal. The profile runs toward dried cranberry and earthy red fruit, with a warm baking-spice finish. It is made in the everyday drinking style the farmers produce for themselves — low-intervention, low-ego, best served with a chill on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pipeño project is a négociant model in which Luyt highlights individual farmers and terroirs across the Maule. Starting with the 2018 vintage, day-to-day viticulture and winemaking are fully entrusted to the farmers, with the farmer's name featured prominently on the back label. Luyt returns to Chile for harvest, early vinification, and bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louis-Antoine Luyt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":13465109594167,"sku":"LUYTPICH19C","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/luyt-pichi.jpg?v=1780187673","url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/products\/pipeno-pichihuedque-louis-antoine-luyt-chile-natural-wine","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}