• STORY: Escaleras de Empedrado is Chile's first wine from terraced slate soils. Empedrado, in the Valle del Maule, has this rare soil formation and combines it with cool Pacific influences to create a very special terroir that shapes the unique character of the grapes and the outstanding quality of this wine.

• AGING: For the Torres family, 2014 is the third vintage of their Chilean premium Pinot Noir from the slate terraces of Empedrado, Maule. The grapes were harvested by hand from April 1st to April 11th, 2014, brought immediately to the winery and macerated in small tanks for four days, then fermented within a week, mainly with the natural yeasts at controlled temperatures of around 24 °C.

• AROMA: intense, elegant bouquet with fruity aromas of sour cherries and rose hips, underlined with spicy notes of undergrowth, mushrooms and moss

• ASSESSMENT: ripe and full-bodied on the palate, very elegant and harmonious with distinctive, slightly salty minerality and racy freshness, juicy with an impressive length in the finish - a unique wine with a strong personality

• SERVING RECOMMENDATION: with rabbit ragout and hare pepper, roasted wild mushrooms, wild fowl (guinea fowl, pheasant) or goose confit

Escaleras de Empedrado is Chile's first wine from terraced slate soils. Empedrado, in the Valle del Maule, has this rare soil formation and combines it with cool Pacific influences to create a very special terroir that shapes the unique character of the grapes and the outstanding quality of this wine.