Kine represents the visionary and innovative spirit of Vina El Principal. Launched in 2014, this is the first wine from the New World produced from the white variety Verdejo, originally from the Rueda region of Spain.
The name Kine comes from the word for ‘one' in Mapudungun, the language of Chile's indigenous Mapuche people. It means ‘first' or ‘unique' - a characteristic that fully expresses the distinctive and exceptional nature of this wine crafted with a pioneer grape in Chile. Kine is Chile's one and only Verdejo wine, a settler in the Maipo Valley. The altitude, the climate and the alluvial soils where pebbles florish, recall its gravelly home soil, allowing a noble and full adaptation to the terroir
The wine displays intense scents of citrus fruits with herbal notes followed by subtle vanilla on a mineral background. In the mouth, it has good body and acidity, freshness and a touch of wood. Long finish.
Varied tapas with Iberian ham and sausages, feather dishes with fresh mushrooms, rice or noodles, paella with rabbit, chicken, shrimp dumpling.
"An unfiltered Verdejo from the Maipo Valley? In the hands of Gonzalo Guzmán, why not? This concrete egg- and large barrel-aged white is leesy and weighty, with guava and white peach flavours and stony reduction. 2018-21"
- Tim Atkin (Chile Special Report 2018), 92 pts
"With its cooked quince character and unusual balance this is a seriously innovative Chilean dry white. The balance of rich, winey body and bone dryness with a hint of bitterness is completely convincing, and there's some real minerality at the finish. Drink or hold."
- James Suckling (March 2018), 92 pts
Founded in 1999, Viña El Principal was originally a partnership between Jorge Fontaine, owner of the Hacienda El Principal, and the French winemaker Jean Paul Valette, now deceased, who was ...
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