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Antiyal Carmenere 2008 is Alvaro Espinosa's limited release prestige varietal Carmenere. Aged in French oak barrels for one year, the wine is characterised by the purity of its spicy plum and cassis flavours. Smoky, brooding and intense, this wine is drinking well now but will also reward at least 5 years' cellaring.
Álvaro Espinoza is one of the finest winemakers in South America today, as well as one of the foremost biodynamic winemakers in the world. His celebrated wine Antiyal is often referred to as Chile's first “garage wine.” Antiyal produces fewer than 400 cases of wine a year in the sleepy Maipo Valley town of Alta Jahuel. Antiyal—a Mapuche word that means “sons of the sun” is a homegrown project of Álvaro Espinoza, one of Chile’s leading winemakers. It’s so homegrown that the one-acre vineyard around Espinoza’s house supplies some of the wine's biodynamic grapes. That site contributes the Cabernet Sauvignon to the plummy, smoky, herb-accented Antiyal blend; the Syrah and Carmenère come from two other Maipo vineyards.
The talented Espinoza also produces Kuyen, which he refers to as his “baby Antiyal.” Kuyen, which means “moon” in the Chilean native language Mapuche, is made by Espinoza and his wife Marina on their small estate in the Maipo Valley. It is a wine made to honor “the ancient traditions and cosmic vision of the people of the earth.”
