Patrick St. Surin Clairin Milot Japan This wine is perhaps Valdespino's

This wine is perhaps Valdespino's most fameous bottle

Tiberio wants to carry this site's long legacy forward by focusing on native varietals and practicing sustainable agriculture

Dismayed to see what their great local wine had come to

It then goes through an initial ageing period (called sobretabla) for one year

so that he can avoid the need for commercial yeasts

Patrick St. Surin Clairin Milot Japan This wine is perhaps Valdespino'sPatrick St. Surin lives in Carrefour Des Peres, a small commune about a thirty minute drive outside of Cap Hatien. Here the plateau that forms much of the middle of the island gives way to plains that reach the Caribbean Sea to the north. He farms just over ten hectares of sugarcane and has been distilling since 2012. The fields surrounding the distillery are composed of local cane varieties, grown by Patrick, such as Medialande, Pete Coca, and