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 is absolutely the one. 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%