June 8, 2026
Pruning the foothill blocks with the cordillera white above us. The cold runs downhill off the snow each night — you feel it in your hands by four in the afternoon. That nightly chill is the whole reason this Cabernet keeps its edge.
2026 Vintage
Maipo Cabernet
Maipo Valley, Chile
Varietals
Cabernet Sauvignon · Carménère
Per vine
$45
Yield
1.5 bottles / vine
Enrollment
70 of 160 spots filled
The place
Maipo Valley, Chile
Maipo Valley, Chile
An Alto Maipo estate at the foot of the Andes — 12 hectares of Cabernet Sauvignon over alluvial river stones, with a block of Carménère on the warmer lower rows. Warm days and cold mountain nights, over heat-holding round stones, give the wine its black fruit and graphite spine.
- Wine
- Maipo Cabernet
- Vessel
- 225L French oak barrel
- Yield
- 1.5 bottles / vine
- Minimum
- 5 vines
- Per vine
- $45
- Vintage
- 2026
Blend
Cabernet Sauvignon88%
Carménère12%
The year ahead
Every shipment, every sample, every pick.
Real dates as they're known. Updated as the vintage progresses.
November 2026
Flowering
Southern hemisphere spring; set under the Andes.
January 2027
Verijuice ships
Green Cabernet juice off the foothill rows.
Late April 2027
Pick expected
Cabernet first, Carménère last; date confirmed 48 hours out.
July 2027
Post-ferment sample
Young component wines by variety.
November 2027
First barrel sample
From the French oak lot.
February 2028
Blend trial
Crew votes how much ripe Carménère to fold in.
May 2028
Bottling
After roughly 14 months in barrel.
August 2028
Wine arrives
Maipo Cabernet, 2026.
November 2026
Flowering
Southern hemisphere spring; set under the Andes.
January 2027
Verijuice ships
Green Cabernet juice off the foothill rows.
Late April 2027
Pick expected
Cabernet first, Carménère last; date confirmed 48 hours out.
July 2027
Post-ferment sample
Young component wines by variety.
November 2027
First barrel sample
From the French oak lot.
February 2028
Blend trial
Crew votes how much ripe Carménère to fold in.
May 2028
Bottling
After roughly 14 months in barrel.
August 2028
Wine arrives
Maipo Cabernet, 2026.
Meet the current Crew
15
members
12
cities
6
countries represented
7 yrs
average tenure in wine
No individual profiles — privacy matters inside the Crew. You'll meet each other once you're in.
How it's priced
By the vine.
This lot is priced per vine. Buy as few as 5 — choose how many in the next step. Your bottles are allocated pro-rata to your vines.
Maipo Cabernet
Priced by the vine · 5-vine minimum
$45 / vine
From $225 · 5 vines · USD
- A share of the lot, by the vine (5-vine minimum)
- Samples across the season: verijuice, post-ferment, barrel, finished wine
- A vote at every fork — pick date, oak, where the blend lands
- Your bottles at release, allocated pro-rata to your vines
- Livestream access to every moment
90 vines left
Pickup or ship
How your wine reaches you.
Swing by the tasting room when the next shipment is ready. Free. For everyone else, ship is the default and equally smooth.
Ship to my address
Standard carrier, adult signature required. Flat fee per shipment. You can switch the destination per shipment at any time.
Ships to: US
Choose at signup. Switch per shipment anytime.
Recent updates
From the rows.
May 22, 2026
Walked the Carménère rows one last time before winter. I marked the lower terrace for a later pick next autumn — that block was a touch green this year and I won't make that mistake twice.
Join this Crew.
One year of your life, inside one vineyard's year — followed by the vine, from bud break to bottle.