{"id":3715,"date":"2012-09-05T13:18:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T13:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2012-09-06T06:27:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T06:27:34","slug":"sacrificing-wine-to-the-inca-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/sacrificing-wine-to-the-inca-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrificing wine to the Inca Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many things have been done to wines over the centuries in the name of improved quality. Much of the world\u2019s best wine, for instance, is poured into oak barrels for various (often surprising) lengths of time. Casks of Madeira used to be shipped to India and back and, even, left out in the rain.\u00a0A few\u00a0Vin Doux Naturels<\/em> in the south of France are matured in glass demi-johns left outside in the baking sun , and at least one Loire producer is ageing his wine\u00a0on the seabed in the Atlantic\u00a0. But never before, as far as we know, has a wine been ‘sacrificed’ to the Incan mountain Gods. Until now, that is.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Norwich-born winemaker Ian Hutcheon owns the Tremonte<\/a> estate in Chile. Back in pre-Conquest times, the Incas sacrificed animals and, often, their fellow man to the Gods atop of the mountains. Ian, inspired by the ancient traditions of the Incas (and, to be a touch cynical for a moment, the more modern traditions of the PR department) has ‘sacrificed’ a few bottles from his winery to Monte Tuca. This sacrifice is, fortunately, not quite as terminal as those of the Incas. \u00a0Individual bottles are wrapped in a cloak, sealed inside small\u00a0coffins and buried at the summit of the mountain.\u00a0\u00a0Reportedly some 200 bottles have been buried thus.\u00a0Once they have overwintered, thirsty and curious punters may ascend Monte Tuca with a map and a spade (and presumably a corkscrew)\u00a0and dig a bottle up again to give it the true final\u00a0sacrifice that all good bottles of wine deserve.<\/p>\n

The wine selected for this mystic treatment is Monte Rekewa<\/a> Gran Reserva, a Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmen\u00e8re, Syrah blend and\u00a0the flagship wine from his Tremonte estate,\u00a0now available exclusively from Lea & Sandeman.\u00a0In addition to the Monte Rekewa there is in the range a fine cassis-laden and quite crunchy Cabernet Sauvignon<\/a>, a warm brambly Merlot<\/a> and a rich velvety Malbec<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All the Tremonte wines\u00a0at Lea & Sandeman\u00a0are available un-sacrificed, but should you wish to over-winter a bottle or two at the bottom of the garden, you\u2019ll have to provide your own coffin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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