Escándalo Wines
What we do.
We make wines from different Chilean valleys, with immense respect for the grape, using low-intervention winemaking and a touch of creativity.
Our ultimate goal is for the wine to speak for itself, and to bring joy and emotion to any table in the world.
Who we are
Mauricio Veloso
Mauricio Veloso, a Chilean agronomist from the Universidad Austral de Chile, has harvested in California, Chile, and New Zealand.
While tasting wines in California, he fell in love with a couple of Spanish appellations. In 2006 he traveled to study winemaking at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
After working in appellations such as 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 with our customers.
We strive to work with minimal environmental impact, from vineyard cultivation to packaging.
We envision the future of our project while always maintaining a fair relationship with our suppliers.
What we believe.
We are eager to make exciting wines and represent the territories we continue to discover.
We find inspiration every day, in a wine we drink, in a new region we explore, its people and their stories.
We are certain that grapes and wine take on a life of their own. We simply try to guide them on the right path to the bottle.
We do not have the final word, we have no certainties, nor do we defend ideologies. For us, there is enough magic and nobility in the transformation of grape into wine.
Terroir.
The vine cuttings that reached the New World are carriers of stories from an entire civilization.
They are thousands of forgotten names we can revive with a simple sip of wine, if only for a moment.
For us, terroir is the convergence of these stories that have adapted to new places and geographies, creating a new score we wish to interpret freely.
Techniques.
Let the grape be the grape.
Harvesting
by hand.
Careful
fermentation.
Co-fermentation
among varieties.
Dalicate
pressings.
Bottling without filtering.
Our practices
We do not use enzymes or commercial yeasts, or any element foreign to the grape.
We sometimes use used barrels in a small percentage of the blend. We age our wines in steel and concrete. We always bottle unfiltered, after gravity settling.
Our wines contain a low level of sulfites, appropriate for proper evolution in the bottle.
We drink and taste our wines every day, and we love them. We hope you do 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.
