Atypical Wines

The winery

Atypical is not a winery with a farm and cellar you can drive up to, but the personal project of Patricia Rodríguez Jaure, an agronomist trained at the Universidad de Talca and a winemaker with 28 years in the wine industry. She founded it in 2021, according to her website, and today combines it with winemaking consultancy for other Maule producers and with her seats on the boards of the Ruta del Vino del Valle del Maule (the Maule Valley Wine Route) and Enólogos de Chile (ANIAE). She says it plainly herself: she has no vineyard or winery of her own. She buys grapes from small growers in the valley, working with them from the vineyard onward, and makes the wines at IIVO, a center in Marchigüe, in the Colchagua Valley, that lends infrastructure and a laboratory to small projects.

Her wines come out in lots of 600 to 1,000 bottles, fermented in amphorae and clay tinajas (traditional earthenware jars), with little or no wood. Bicho Raro, her first wine, is a Carignan from Melozal; Sueños Salvajes, a País from old head-trained vines, also in Melozal, made in clay tinajas; Petit Élan, a Petit Verdot from a 0.2-hectare plot in Unihue, in the Claro Valley, aged in cocciopesto amphorae; Buena Racha, a blend of Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Syrah and Petit Verdot, also from Unihue; and Lucky Man, a Cinsault that her store places in Guarilihue, in the Itata Valley, although IIVO presents it as a Maule wine. In 2026 she also announced Salt Air, a Sauvignon Blanc that has not yet appeared in the store. Several labels come out of her work with the artist Stanley Al Límite, who reworks classic paintings with digital collage.

Atypical does not receive visitors: the Ruta del Vino del Maule lists it without tourism, with private experiences whose format and location are to be confirmed, and there is no published program. The wines are sold through the store on her website, from CLP 6,000 to CLP 12,000 a bottle; she only offers cash on delivery and does not publish shipping costs or delivery areas, so write first to info@atypicalvinos.cl or via Instagram. The wines have also been available to taste and buy at her fair stand, staffed by the winemaker herself: in 2025 she was at the Boulevard del Vino in Talca and at Cultura y Vino, in the Plaza de Armas of San Javier.