Vina Maitia Aupa Pipeno 2024 Reasonable Cellar letting the site do the

letting the site do the talking

L'Échappée ('the escape') comes from 25-year-old vines on sandy clay-gravelly soils over slate

planted in Contra Costa's sandy soils around 1890

and the wine that crowns two decades of biodynamic farming at one of Burgundy's most legendary sites

generous fruit to the Cote de Beaune while holding onto freshness

Vina Maitia Aupa Pipeno 2024 Reasonable Cellar letting the site do thePipeno is how Chile drank for four centuries before anyone thought to bottle wine in a chateau. Traditionally it's Pais, light and gulpable, sold from the barrel and poured without ceremony. David Marcel and Loreto Garau make theirs from old vines in Maule (some of the plantings date to the 1890s), blending in a bit of Carignan and keeping the winemaking as hands off as possible. The result is pale, lively, and dangerously easy: put a chill on it and