Petit Verdot Liqueur
- Vineyard
- Finca Bautem · Maipú, Barrancas · 750 m a.s.l.
- Production
- 1,000 bottles a year
- Ageing
- 24 months in second use barrels, plus a year in bottle
Tasting notes
High colour intensity, deep and dark, with intense red tones. On the nose, ripe black fruit with chocolate and coffee. On the palate it shows its character: a soft but persistent entry, with a balance between residual sugar and alcohol. Ideal with a dessert at the end of a meal.
Winemaking
It was born out of the search for new products with the variety that represents us. We select a couple of rows from the Petit Verdot plot and let them ripen until May: a very late harvest that reaches a high sugar concentration. It is vatted without crushing and fermentation is worked only by punch-down, slower and more controlled. It stops on its own when the wine reaches 15 degrees of alcohol and 80-90 g/l of natural sugar. At that point we fortify with Petit Verdot grappa up to 18 degrees and move it to 225-litre second use barrels.
