Bestiario
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2023
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted pork belly, spicy Thai curry, aged pecorino cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Part of Viña Morandé's innovative 'Adventure' series, Bestiario is a tribute to creative freedom and ancient winemaking techniques. Inspired by medieval bestiaries—illustrated volumes describing mythical and real beasts—this wine breaks traditional boundaries. It is crafted as a skin-contact white wine (orange wine style) using Rhône varieties sourced from the Central Valley. By fermenting the grapes with their skins in concrete eggs and clay amphorae, Morandé coaxes out an amber hue, rich phenolic texture, and an exotic, wild aromatic complexity that challenges the conventional Chilean white wine paradigm.
🍾 About the Producer
Viña Morandé was founded in 1996 by visionary winemaker Pablo Morandé, widely celebrated as the viticultural pioneer who introduced commercial vine plantings to the cool, maritime-influenced Casablanca Valley. Now operating under the Morandé Wine Group umbrella with historical headquarters and cellars centered in Pelequén, the estate farms extensively across prime Chilean macro-terroirs ranging from coastal Casablanca and Limarí to the granitic dry-farmed Secano Interior of Maule and Itata. Under the cellar direction of Ricardo Baettig alongside Pablo Morandé, the winery is renowned for innovative technical methods, including early adoption of high-density plantings, concrete eggs, and traditional untoasted foudres. Across whites and sparkling expressions, the house crafts crisp coastal whites and classical cuvées alongside boundary-pushing benchmark bottlings such as Edición Limitada Black Chardonnay, Bestiario, and the noble rot dessert wine Edición Limitada Golden Harvest Sauvignon Blanc, marrying varietal freshness with textural complexity.
🍇 Grapes
Marsanne, Roussanne, Viognier