Roberto Henriquez Bio-Bio Pais Franco 2021

Name: Roberto Henriquez Bio-Bio Pais Franco 2021
Brand: T. Edward [TED]
SKU: SF-1-TED--080924-31
Price: 25.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$25⁹⁹

País was Chile's grape for four hundred years before anybody turned up with Cabernet — brought by missionaries, planted everywhere, then dismissed as bulk juice and largely abandoned. Roberto Henriquez is one of the growers who refused to let it disappear. He grew up in Concepción, did his time at big commercial wineries, went to the Loire, spent time working alongside Louis-Antoine Luyt, and came home to farm ancient ungrafted vines in Bío Bío. This bottling comes off an old dry riverbed about 800 meters from the Bío Bío river, where alluvial topsoil sits over black basaltic sand. The name does double duty: pie franco means ungrafted, and franco also means frank — this is the plainspoken, unvarnished version of the grape.

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More about Roberto Henriquez

During the American revolution, these vines were thriving. At the dawn of the industrial revolution, these vines were producing fruit. Before, during, and after the careers of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Andy Warhol, and Whitney Houston, winemakers were producing wine from these ancient vines of País in Chile’s Bío-Bío region.

Roberto Henriquez is only the most recent custodian of these vines. He doesn’t own the land, but he farms it meticulously, employing organic and biodynamic techniques. After working in France, Canada and South Africa, in 2015 he returned to his native Chile to join the region’s small-scale, zero-input agriculture and winemaking community.

The País grape is largely unknown, yet its history in the Americas is long and storied. It was brought over by Spanish missionaries in the 16th century — communion wine being a necessity even in the strange New World — and has since thrived in the hills of South America.

Thanks to the efforts of a few devoted vignerons — Henriquez among them — País is finally gaining the recognition it deserves. It can be very tannic, so measures are taken to keep them in check. Roberto de-stems the fruit, then crushes it gently. Native yeasts are used, and the wines are only briefly aged, in stainless steel and old barrels. Of course, thanks to the vines’ incredible age, yields are very low and the fruit is very concentrated.