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Gustavo Martínez

Gustavo Martínez
2015
Sustainable, Dry Farmed
Chile
Chile - Itata Valley
Pacific coastal
300m - 350m
Granite
Selected from parcels ~5ha of purchased fruit
900 cases
About the Producer

Gustavo worked for Luis Antoine Luyt in 2013 and 2014 where he coincided with another well known natural winemaker, Roberto Henriquez. But before working alongside two of Chile's current day heavy hitters, he started building his network of growers in 2008 working as a technical advisor for a government funded program helping winegrowers across the Itata Valley. That network really came in handy in 2015 when he started making his own wine full time.

He set up shop in Florida which geographically belongs to the Biobío region but from a winemaking standpoint is considered Itata due to the granite composition of the soil. All the cuvées are single varieties from single vineyards farmed by those growers he's been working alongside all these years, pushing them to dry farm and eliminating chemicals. In the cellar he wanted to bring things back to how they were done before mass industrialization, what they refer to locally as the Pipeño style, destemming grapes using a zaranda and fermenting wines spontaneously.

All the cuvées are single varieties from single vineyards farmed by those growers he's been working alongside all these years, pushing them to dry farm and eliminating chemicals.