Escándalo Wines
What we do.
We make wine from different Chilean valleys, with tremendous respect for the grape, using oenology with a minimum of intervention and a certain creativity. Our objective is to let the wine speak for itself and be capable of bringing joy and excitement to any table in the world.
Who we are
Mauricio Veloso
Mauricio Veloso, a Chilean agronomist from the Universidad Austral de Chile, has participated in wine harvests in California, Chile, and New Zealand. Tasting wines in California, he fell in love with a couple of Spanish appellations. In 2006 he went to Spain to study oenology at the Universidad Politécnica in Madrid. After working on Appellations of Origin like El Bierzo, Ribera del Duero, and La Mancha, he returned to Chile in 2011.
He bottled the first Escándalo in Chile in 2015.
Values.
Humility.
Honesty in our client dealings.
We strive to work with minimal environmental impact from cultivating the vineyard to packaging.
We visualize always maintaining a fair relationship with our suppliers in the future.
OUR BELIEFS
We are anxious to make exciting wines and to represent the different areas that we get to know. We find inspiration day by day, in a wine we drink, a new place we discover, and the people who live there. We are sure the grapes and wine take on a life of their own, we only try to guide them along the correct path to the bottle.
We don´t have the last word, we aren´t the owners of the truth, we don´t defend ideologies. To us there is enough magic and nobility in transforming grapes into wine. That is all we are interested in protecting, and it is what we live for.
Terroir.
The shoots of grapevines that have reached the new world transport the tales of an entire civilization, thousands of forgotten names that we can resuscitate with just a sip of wine and bring to life again, even if it is just for a moment. Wine is full of stories that continue their progress along a route formed by centuries of time and infinite distances.
To us, Terroir is the convergence of these stories that have adapted to new places, new geography, creating a new musical score that we want to interpret freely. We only want to make the purest wines we can, respecting this land and the nature of each variety.
Our place is Chile, and we are proud to be able to participate in its winemaking history.
Techniques.
Let the grape continue to be a grape.
Harvesting
by hand.
Careful
fermentation.
Co-fermentation
among varieties.
Dalicate
pressings.
Bottling without filtering.
Our practices
Harvesting by hand, careful fermentation, co-fermentation among varieties, delicate pressings, natural stabilization (with the Winter cold). We don´t use enzymes, commercial yeasts, or any other element than the grape.
Sometimes we use barrels in a small percentage of the mixture. We age our wines in steel and cement. We always bottle without filtering after gravity sedimentation.
Our wines contain a low level of sulfites in accordance with the correct evolution of the wine in the bottle.
We drink and taste our wines every day, and we love them. We hope you will too.
Wines and valleys.
Each wine is born from a territory, a variety, and a particular way of interpreting the landscape.
Escándalo Semillón
Colchagua Valley
Escándalo Carignan
Colchagua Valley
Escándalo CaBERNET
CUNACO
PIPEÑO
Itata Valley
Escándalo Pedro Ximenez Naranjo
Importers.
We work with partners who share our way of understanding wine: respect, honesty, and terroir.
If you would like to know more about availability, distribution, or international representation, let’s talk.
Labels.
Each label tells part of the journey: the origin, energy, and character of each wine.
