Castel Pujol Folklore Naranja 2025

Bodega Cerro Chapeu

Castel Pujol Folklore Naranja 2025

750ml
$24.75
  • Organic
Description

This intriguing wine from Uruguay is produced from a blend of Trebbiano and Petit Manseng skins. A beautiful orange in the glass, the wine opens with notes of grapefruit, white peach, and hints of dried sage buoyed by refreshing acidity and texture for days. Helmed by 10th generation winemaker Pia Carrau, Bodega Cerro Chapeu’s “Folklore” is a celebration of local culture — the label art depicts a Margay, an indigenous wild cat and was drawn by a local artist — and low-input winemaking. The winery donates $1 of each bottle sold to Ambá, a nonprofit committed to preserving and regenerating biodiversity in Uruguay. 

Bodega Cerro Chapeu

Originally from Spain, the Carrau family has been making wine for generations, to Uruguay in 1930. Scientists, nature lovers, and pioneers, they saw winemaking promise in the unique soils and microclimate in Rivera, Uruguay, and established one of the only wineries in this very remote region. In 1973, Quico Carrau Pujol, in collaboration with the University of California Davis, began the search for Uruguayan terroir to plant the first virus-free vines. They ultimately settled on the iron-rich, deep sandy soils of Rivera, in Cerro Chapeu, located along the northern border of Uruguay and Brazil. The Cerro Chapeu region is located in one of the purest environments according to the environmental sustainability indexes (ESI) of Columbia and Yale universities. A few years later, they designed one of the first gravity fed wineries in South America. More than 40 years later, Bodega Cerro Chapeu has become a leader in low-intervention viticulture and winemaking, producing outstanding, unique expressions of Tannat, Arinarnoa, and many international varietals.

ORIGIN

Rivera, Uruguay

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