Bichi, Mistico, 2019, 750 ml
If you've ever wished your wine could taste like mezcal, this red blend from 100 year old vines in Tecate, Mexico was made for you. Smoke and leather yet still refreshingly drinkable. Read more
COUNTRY: Mexico
REGION: Tecate
VARIETAL: Misión, Rosa del Peru, Tempranillo
VINTAGE: 2019
FARMING: biodynamic farming from dry-farmed estate vineyards
SOIL: sandy, granitic soil
AGE OF VINES: 100 years
WINEMAKING: harvested by hand, de-stemmed and fermented in 450L concrete ‘tinajas’ (amphora), with one tinaja of Tempranillo seeing some carbonic maceration; the juice then spends 3 months in equal parts steel vat and older oak before bottling without fining or filtration and only 10 ppm of added SO2; 378 cases; 12.5% ABV
ABV: 12.5%