Vina Gonzalez Bastias Pais Descabezado 2025 NO20231025 South Africa's first Black female

South Africa's first Black female winemaker

and structured—a serious Nebbiolo from one of Italy's greatest estates

the biodynamic farming gives it lift

The wine opens with cassis

and a concentration that only decades of slow evaporation can produce

Vina Gonzalez Bastias Pais Descabezado 2025 NO20231025 South Africa's first Black femaleJos Luis Bastas and his partner Daniela Lorenzo work old, ungrafted Pas vines in Chile's Maule Valley, and "Descabezado" literally "beheaded" refers to the traditional head pruned bush vine training that's kept these heritage vineyards alive for generations. Pas was Chile's workhorse grape for centuries before falling out of fashion; in the right hands and on the right soils, it makes light, juicy, soulful red. This one drinks like a Chilean cousin to