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Thursday, November 12, 2020

Maturana Naranjo Torontel Orange Wine

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2019 Maturana Naranjo Torontel Orange Wine...$23.99

100% Torontel
It is a wine made with grapes of the Torontel variety planted in free standing at the beginning of the year 1935, these are selected and harvested by hand.  Our Naranjo is vinified with the ORANGE WINES or AMBER WINES method and is in contact with the grape skins for approximately 9 months, in concrete eggs.
It is a wine made with grapes of the Torontel variety planted in free standing at the beginning of the year 1935, these are selected and harvested by hand.
The Maturana brothers lost their family home and vineyards in the 2010 earthquake. As a result they changed their business to focus on small-batch artisan wines, such as this Naranja made from a 4ha plot of 80-year-old Torontel vines. Fermented on skins in concrete eggs, it's intensely aromatic, with peach, apricot, lychee and orange peel leaping out of the glass. The textured palate is more restrained with subtle stone fruit, orange and lemon citrus, sprinkled with spice, plus good cleansing acidity and a crisp, juicy finish. A perfect orange wine for people who say they don't like orange wine...
Drinking Window 2020 - 2023
Rated 92/100 Decanter Magazine
Chosen as the Best Orange Wine in Chile for 4 consecutive years in «Descorchados Guide – Patricio Tapia» with 95 Points


2018 Maturana Semillon Orange Wine....$23.99
A joyful semillon that’s brimming with candied-citrus and cooked-quince character. I love the warm, round palate that’s fresh enough for a few years more, but is delicious now. Where is that roast chicken?
Rated 92/100 James Suckling
Although Paradones is often thought of as a new wine-growing area, the truth is that it has a long tradition and this wine proves it.
From vineyards in that area, planted in 1928, 20% of this wine was fermented and aged with its skins to obtain that firm structure that today presents a white with a great structure, a long finish showing incredible minerality and great freshness.
ORIGIN:  Colchagua Valley Coast, Paredones, Chile
VARIETY 100% Semillón

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