Faulconer noted that many projects, in addition to replanting plans, are medium- and long-term businesses that end in people’s lives.
“It is vital for Chile the quality of the wine, the types of wines it gives and its symbol as a wine-producing country,” he said.”But other people who paint in world wine today want to perceive that they probably won’t see the full result.”
“The big adjustments take time and worry about this kind of thing and in total the total allocation will take between 30 and 50 years.”
Carmen is about to plant her first “clean” mass breeding vines next year as part of a long-term replanting task at her Alto Jahuel estate.The program consists of a visual settlement of healthy vines that are then analyzed and “cleaned” in a laboratory to prevent the spread of disease, before being used in control plantations.
Faulconer also states that there is a long-term purpose to identify Alto Jahuel as a separate DO within Maipo.
He added: “Alto Jahuel is not a DO today, but we have to push it one day, as happened with Apalta in the Colchagua Valley.Apalta has become a DO because it had the prestige through its wine to become denomination.That is what is intended here, the DO will be awarded because wines and winemakers deserve a more express name.
He said the creation of a more complex nomenclature formula in Chile, as well as a greater of regional differences, would take time.
However, Faulconer was able to achieve direct and rapid change.In particular, he told db that he is running on the date harvest, advancing the harvest to produce fresher wines.
Speaking about Carmen’s newest new release, a high-end cabernet sauvignon blend called Delanz that will hit British shores in October, Faulconer said: “Many other people have told me that it doesn’t taste like Alto Maipo and Cabernet Sauvignon, it’s too delicate.
“At first I was worried, but now I like that’s the impression it gives because it shows what we can achieve with this vineyard.
“I want the most productive wines of this winery and this region to be the really fine and sensitive wines, that’s what makes Cabs d’Alto Maipo so unique.Personally, I think that wonderful tannic wines are not the most productive expression of cabernet sauvignon, or at least not the one I like to drink.
Faulconer also complemented the quijada Sémillon harvest in the Carmen DO range, reducing the alcohol point to 12.5% ABV.
She said: “The winery is very old and the variety itself has a lot of weight.Apalta, where he lives, is hot, so I felt like I didn’t want three more weeks of maturity.For me, it’s getting a little too heavy.”
He also conducts experiments on biological aging. In addition to an elderly semillón in flower of the DO range, it also tries a rosé and a sparkling wine made according to the classic with biologically aged wine as a blending component.
If successful, rosé will be released next year, while sparkling wine, two of which have already evolved and are now underway, will take 3 to 4 years.
Carmen, Chile and Covid-19
Despite the difficult situations posed by Covid-19, especially the closures of places to eat and the decline in tourism, Faulconer said it is a “good year” financially for Carmen.
“It’s amazing, the business for us has never been better,” he says.This is largely due to the new distribution style in the United States.Carmen and the Santa Rita organization in total also invested heavily in e-commerce, which were working long before the coronavirus arrived.
The company completed the structure of a new distribution center near its Alto Maipo winery, allowing it to offer 24-hour delivery throughout the country.Falconer said the accumulation of online sales had been “crazy,” as staff in the past on the industry sales team were now transferred to e-commerce.
He added that the team has learned to be “more efficient” and is getting more meetings, which, he said, has accumulated a long time.
“We were making too many trips. The energy needed, its load, was not sustainable,” he said.
Here in Washington state, we went from nowhere in 1970 to the first region of the world in 1988.Wine is a five- to ten-year project.