A long time veteran of the wine industry, Mauricio ‘Mauro’ Gonzalez knows the prettified cellar sorcery of the modern winery inside and out.  Perhaps that’s why he went so hard the other way.  Mauricio grows 4 hectares of old vines in Yumbel’s volcanic terroir that he vinifieds in a dirt floored, slat roofed ‘winery’ using historic open-topped ‘Pipas’ and nothing resembling the gleaming cellar craft he built his skills with.  This kind of primitive set up might be expected to churn out superlatively rustic wines but in this way Mauricio’s classical pedigree really shows: his wines are living relics but they’re utterly clean and gorgeous vinified with historic methods without sulfite additions.