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Winemaker and Organic Viticulturist
About Sergio Ramirez
In 2008, Sergio Ramirez led the first certified organic conversion of a century-old vineyard in Chile’s Maule Valley, El Cerrillo, reviving pre-phylloxera País vines buried beneath decades of conventional tillage. He didn’t just replace synthetic inputs; he reintroduced native Andean earthworms and co-planted aromatic herbs like boldo and litre to restore soil microbiology, a method now cited in FAO case studies on agroecological viticulture. His 2015 ‘Canto del Viento’, fermented spontaneously in hand-hewn raulí wood tanks, was the first Chilean wine to earn the EU’s Organic + Biodynamic dual certification without imported yeasts or temperature control. Sergio speaks of terroir not as geology alone, but as memory: of Mapuche land stewardship practices he learned from elders in Curicó, of how fog patterns shift with native peumo tree cover, and why his Cabernet Franc tastes of wet granite only in vintages following winter rains that swell the Claro River. His wines don’t illustrate philosophy, they document dialogue between soil, season, and silence.
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- “How did you convince skeptical Maule growers to graft old País vines instead of ripping them out?”
- “What’s the biggest misconception about organic certification in Chilean viticulture?”
- “Can you walk me through how raulí wood changes fermentation compared to French oak?”
- “Why do you harvest your Carignan at 11:37 a.m. during veraison?”