País Más País, a.k.a. País plus País, is Vino Potable’s answer to Claus Preisinger’s Puszta Libre or the low-ABV, vin-de-soif version of Partida Creus’s MUZ: intensely cherried and strawberried while still rich in Pacific garrigue, walking a thirst-inducing line between fresh and savory.
We’ll further lean into cliché here: the wine screams summer barbeque. Or, what red are you supposed to drink when it’s still warm in fall or just getting there in the spring? Or when the suggested pairing for seafood is Pinot Noir!? Absolutely not: País Más País even goes with oysters. Also, grilled octopus. Please, grilled octopus.
Located in Pellines, Itata, Don Omar's north-facing vineyards are planted at 161m above sea level on granitic soils, yielding concentration though without imposing weight.
Here, País is co-planted with Muscat of Alexandria, Torrontel, and a bit of Semillón. The País in particular looks more like bonsai than vines. All vineyard management is manual, by hand and by horse.
Is País the Americas’ most Americas grape? If the metric is that it’s been here for five centuries, the answer needs to be yes.
Hyperbole aside, as with all vineyards in Itata, their age and the fact that massale selection is alive and well mean that no vineyard is monovarietal.
País Más País is mostly País with a bit of San Francisco, or ‘la uva manzana’ as it’s known locally: the ‘apple grape’ because of its size and crunch.
Honestly, probably a bunch of other grapes too, but that’s why we added more País.
Destemmed and twenty days on the skins, this vineyard’s extremely late, cool ripening means the País
enters the winery very late in the season when ambient temperatures have come down quite a bit.
These low temperatures mean that the wine wild-ferments at an achingly slow rate, preserving an insanely juicy feel. Nothing added and nothing taken away; only 20 PPM sulfur, which is added at bottling.
País Más País, a.k.a. País plus País, is Vino Potable’s answer to Claus Preisinger’s Puszta Libre or the low-ABV, vin-de-soif version of Partida Creus’s MUZ: intensely cherried and strawberried while still rich in Pacific garrigue, walking a thirst-inducing line between fresh and savory.
We’ll further lean into cliché here: the wine screams summer barbeque. Or, what red are you supposed to drink when it’s still warm in fall or just getting there in the spring? Or when the suggested pairing for seafood is Pinot Noir!? Absolutely not: País Más País even goes with oysters. Also, grilled octopus. Please, grilled octopus.
Located in Pellines, Itata, Don Omar's north-facing vineyards are planted at 161m above sea level on granitic soils, yielding concentration though without imposing weight.
Here, País is co-planted with Muscat of Alexandria, Torrontel, and a bit of Semillón. The País in particular looks more like bonsai than vines. All vineyard management is manual, by hand and by horse.
Is País the Americas’ most Americas grape? If the metric is that it’s been here for five centuries, the answer needs to be yes.
Hyperbole aside, as with all vineyards in Itata, their age and the fact that massale selection is alive and well mean that no vineyard is monovarietal.
País Más País is mostly País with a bit of San Francisco, or ‘la uva manzana’ as it’s known locally: the ‘apple grape’ because of its size and crunch.
Honestly, probably a bunch of other grapes too, but that’s why we added more País.
Destemmed and twenty days on the skins, this vineyard’s extremely late, cool ripening means the País
enters the winery very late in the season when ambient temperatures have come down quite a bit.
These low temperatures mean that the wine wild-ferments at an achingly slow rate, preserving an insanely juicy feel. Nothing added and nothing taken away; only 20 PPM sulfur, which is added at bottling.
País Más País, a.k.a. País plus País, is Vino Potable’s answer to Claus Preisinger’s Puszta Libre or the low-ABV, vin-de-soif version of Partida Creus’s MUZ: intensely cherried and strawberried while still rich in Pacific garrigue, walking a thirst-inducing line between fresh and savory.
We’ll further lean into cliché here: the wine screams summer barbeque. Or, what red are you supposed to drink when it’s still warm in fall or just getting there in the spring? Or when the suggested pairing for seafood is Pinot Noir!? Absolutely not: País Más País even goes with oysters. Also, grilled octopus. Please, grilled octopus.
Located in Pellines, Itata, Don Omar's north-facing vineyards are planted at 161m above sea level on granitic soils, yielding concentration though without imposing weight.
Here, País is co-planted with Muscat of Alexandria, Torrontel, and a bit of Semillón. The País in particular looks more like bonsai than vines. All vineyard management is manual, by hand and by horse.
Is País the Americas’ most Americas grape? If the metric is that it’s been here for five centuries, the answer needs to be yes.
Hyperbole aside, as with all vineyards in Itata, their age and the fact that massale selection is alive and well mean that no vineyard is monovarietal.
País Más País is mostly País with a bit of San Francisco, or ‘la uva manzana’ as it’s known locally: the ‘apple grape’ because of its size and crunch.
Honestly, probably a bunch of other grapes too, but that’s why we added more País.
Destemmed and twenty days on the skins, this vineyard’s extremely late, cool ripening means the País
enters the winery very late in the season when ambient temperatures have come down quite a bit.
These low temperatures mean that the wine wild-ferments at an achingly slow rate, preserving an insanely juicy feel. Nothing added and nothing taken away; only 20 PPM sulfur, which is added at bottling.
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