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Mayu - Pedro Ximenez 2023 (750ml)
Price: $19.99
| Producer | Mayu |
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| Country | Chile |
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| Varietal | Pedro Ximenez |
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| Vintage | 2023 |
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| Sku | 598367 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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Located in northern Chile’s Elqui Valley, Viña Mayu was founded in 2005 and is the first winery to be established in the valley. It is the joint venture of Mauro Olivier Alcayaga, whose parents emigrated to the region from northern Italy in the 1950s, and his cousin Giorgio Flessati, arguably one of the top viticulturists in the world today who was the pioneer of planting fine wine grapes in the Elqui valley in 2000 with his first Carmenere and Syrah plantings. The winery currently produces a red that blends those two varietals and two whites, a Sauvignon Blanc and this unusual dry-white version of Pedro Ximenez, the grape of sherry. Grapes for this wine come from one of Chile’s highest-altitude (more than 6300 feet) vineyards. But this wine tastes nothing like sherry . . . perhaps more like Muscadet? Gruner? There is a hint of brine on the palate, but with lots of stone fruit and serious minerality.
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