V I Ñ E D O S D E A L C O H U A Z
Viñedos de Alcohuaz sits at around 2,200 metres above sea level, not at the foot of the Andes but, as I like to think of it, somewhere on their shoulders. Up there, extreme temperature changes, intense sunlight, very little rain and highly mineral granitic soils produce wines that are unmistakably Andean.
The whole identity grew from three things that define this rather extraordinary place: sun, granite and altitude — sol, granito y altura. Even the grapes behave differently here, developing unusually thick skins and requiring an initial pressing by foot, where the sensitivity of the human touch achieves something machinery simply cannot.
The RHU concept takes the idea a little further. At this altitude, where earth and sky seem remarkably close, RHU becomes a portal where divinity meets humanity—a point of passage between the earthly and something beyond it.
Sometimes the landscape does most of the conceptual work for you.
