‘Blinto’

País & Moscatel de Alejandría, Itata Valley, Chile

A zero-zero, savoury and aromatic Chilean red-white blend extravaganza. Brand new-to-Ontario producer from Grapes Witch Imports, welcome La Basilona! Beginning in 2021, Alsace-born Basile l’Archimandrite’s delectable Itata Valley project is all about creating delicious and terroir-driven wines from the fruit of only the happiest n’ healthiest vines he can grow or buy. The Spanish version of blouge (from the French, blanc + rouge), meet BLINTO (blanco + tinto)! A 50/50 blend of 100-year-old, granite-grown país and moscatel de alejandría that were macerated for three months, pressed off skins and aged for nine months where they tied themselves together like baby’s first shoelaces. Morels in the rain, expensive feet, a house ripe with fancy incense meets a friend’s cool mom's perfume when you were in grade school, mineral muster, grapefruit pithy astringency, dried orange rind & bitter almond. A THIRSTY wine, enjoy alongside a Burmese tea leaf salad and reciting The Poetry Foundation’s poem of the day to anyone who will listen.