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Reptiliano' Orange Moscatel 2021
Terroir Sonoro

Reptiliano' Orange Moscatel 2021

750ml

Sale price$26.00

This is a fascinating skin-contact wine from Chilean superstar Juan Jose Ledesma. Produced from 100% Muscat de Alexandria hand harvested in the Florida vineyard in the Itata Valley, and fermented on skins with music for about 7 days. The wine is then finished in stainless steel and aged on the lees under a uniquely protective — and transformative — layer of flor for one year before bottling unfined, unfiltered and with no sulfur. The finished wine is, as Juan says, “strange, alien,” and a uniquely delicious orange wine (“vino naranjo singular”) that is both floral and savory. We love it with herbed chicken and Thai fried rice. 

White and Orange • Dry • Funky, Fruity, and Aromatic

Moscatel, Moscato, Muscat de Alexandria

Organic and Vegan

Valle Del Itata, Chile

Herbed chicken, Thai fried rice

Terroir Sonoro

Juan José Ledesma lives, breathes and plays Chilean wine. Juan has been working in the Itata Valley in southern Chile for the last 24 years, consulting for commercial wineries throughout Chile while working with small scale grape growers in the south. Juan was born to a family of musicians and, if you were to ask him, he would probably say he is a musician first and a winemaker second. Juan has combined both passions by utilizing music to assist with the fermentations and elevage of some of his Terroir Sonoro wines, going so far as to plunge speakers (actually a magnetic transducer in silicon) into the barrels during elevage. It’s his belief that the vibrations assist in harmonizing the wines. Think of it as battonage with vibrations. The wines with guitar strings on the labels have been treated to music while those without are simply pure reflections of the unique terroir of the Valle del Itata.