With this wine, four friends did the crazy thing and sought to plant vines in Chile’s most extreme terroir. This vineyard is located at the coastal end of the Itata Valley, comprised of granite and basalt soils. Granite is an example of the shifting of soils, where very slowly cooling magma is brought up to the surface, while basalt is formed from rapidly cooled lava, which washed down rivers from the Andes to the coastal region. Wines from this region are concentrated and comparable in style to the other volcanic regions of Etna and Canarias. This wine in particular is a blend of 40% Carignan, 30% Pais, 20% Cinsault, and 10% Carmenere. This complex blend results in a wine rich in character; red fruit shifting towards black fruit, smoky spiciness, floral black tea, and that volcanic minerality and those dusty tannins show up again.