Vintages New Release Collection – October 11, 2025

FIRST AMONG EQUALS Chile’s Limarí Valley crafts world-class treasures carved from fog and limestone.

The Limarí Valley is a hotbed of sustainability where limited water has made conservation a necessity. Over the last 15 years, it’s risen to become Chile’s go-to region for top-quality Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and more. Limarí sits well beyond latitudes traditionally considered optimal for premium wine. At 30° south and abutting the world’s driest desert (the Atacama), Limarí seems an unlikely, inhospitable location for the creation of top-tier expressions. Yet Limarí produces Chile’s finest Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, racy Sauvignon Blanc, a distinctively graceful style of Syrah, and many other excellent wines. But how? Vineyards in the Limarí Valley are planted at altitudes from sea level to nearly 2,000 metres elevation and experience the same moderating ocean influence as the rest of Chile’s coastal regions: the Humboldt Current. The Humboldt’s effect manifests as bracing morning temperatures and cold nights. In Limarí, when the current’s cool ocean breezes collide with the hot, dry Atacama Desert air, it generates a unique, dense morning fog known as the camanchaca . This fog blankets the vineyards until the afternoon, when the sun burns it away, allowing the grapes to soak up the brilliant sunshine necessary for proper maturation and ripening. Interesting, yes, but surely other regions have cool, foggy mornings and high-altitude plantings? Certainly some do, but nowhere else in Chile does one find a richer concentration of limestone soils. Elsewhere in Chile, decomposed granite typically dominates. Limarí’s unique limestone soils impart structure and minerality while, most importantly, allowing the grapes to preserve even more of their high natural acidity as they ripen. This translates to wines with a freshness that no other region in Chile can attain, setting Limarí’s wines apart from other premium-quality Chilean coastal cool-climate centres, such as Casablanca.

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