Have you ever wanted to turn the earth upside down? That’s exactly what Santiago Deicas, winemaker at Familia Deicas winery in Uruguay, did for their Suelo Invertido wine in a vineyard in Canelones. Amanda Barnes interviews Santiago on this innovative project that turned the vineyard soil upside down in order to bring the subsoil of limestone to the surface, and move the topsoil of clay to the bottom.
As Santiago explains, the experiment worked… The Tannat grown in the plot with the upside-down soil has a very different profile compared to the one grown in the regular soil with the clay on top. While the Tannat grown in the regular soil usually has notes of flowers like roses and fruit such as quince, figs, and fresh fruit, in the Suelo Invertido wine, you can get tropical fruit like mango and citric fruit like red fruit and orange, along with higher acidity and linear tannins. Interesting!
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Suelo Invertido – Winemaker Santiago Deicas talks about turning soil upside down in Uruguay