Celebrating the Soul of Old Vine País: Introducing ALMAULE

Celebrating the Soul of Old Vine País: Introducing ALMAULE

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about VIGNO, a unique movement created in Chile to celebrate and spotlight old-vine, dry-farmed Carignan in Chile’s Maule Valley. That is, it was unique—until about four years ago, when six of the players involved in VIGNO decided the same thing needed to be done for the old-vine País of Maule’s Secano Interior. And so ALMAULE was born. Interestingly, while the old-vine Carignan in Maule dates to the middle of the …