Mai Vino Organic Amber/Skin Contact can 250mL

CHILE : ITATA VALLEY

ORGANIC : Moscatel de Alejandria, Semillon

MED-BODIED, DRIED APRICOT, MANGO, WHITE TEA, SKIN TANNINS, NO OAK

Itata Valley is one of Chile's oldest wine regions, home to some of the oldest vines in the country. Pressing technology never arrived here the way it did elsewhere in Chile, so winemakers kept white grapes on their skins by default — making skin-contact wine long before it had a marketing name. What the rest of the world calls orange wine, they just call wine.

These 80-year-old Moscatel de Alejandria vines are dry-farmed and horse-ploughed once a year, fermented with native yeast, left on the skins for 28 days. The result is dried apricot and mango on the nose, a lightly tannic mid-palate, and a smoky white tea finish — approachable for orange wine newcomers, satisfying for the already converted. 12.2% ABV, zero residual sugar.

Mai Vino is a female-founded New York brand built around single-origin organic sourcing. The 250mL can is the newest format — same grapes, same winemaking as their 1.5L pouch, more practical to open.

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