Producers Flashcards

1
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Iconic Bordeaux-style blend from Aconcagua that placed ahead of both Chateau Lafite and Chateau Margaux in the 2004 Berlin Tasting

A

Errazuriz ‘Sena’

  • Milestone for the Chilean wine industry likened to the famous 1976 Judgement of Paris
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2004 Berlin Tasting

1st place wine

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Errazuriz ‘Vinedo Chadwick’ 2000

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3
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MOVI

4 Producers

A
  • Garage Wine Co.
  • Garcia + Schwaderer
  • Kingston
  • Montsecano
  • Sigla
  • Von Siebenthal
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MOVI

Year est.

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2009

  • 12 Wineries as the Movimiento de Viñateros Independientes (MOVI)
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MOVI

Year est.

3 Members

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Movimiento de Viñateros Independientes

  • est 2009, with 12 members at the time
  • Garage Wine Co., Montsecano, Von Siebenthal, Sigla, Kingston, and Garcia + Schwaderer
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6
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3 producers that dominate 85% of Chile’s domestic consumption

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  • Concha y Toro
  • Santa Rita
  • San Pedro

(and Associated Brands)

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7
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Producer that has the largest market-share and possesses South America’s largest vineyard holdings

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Concha y Toro

  • over 9,000 ha of vines spread throughout Chile and Argentina
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8
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2 early winegrowing estates 1st to replant their vineyards with French cuttings, ripping out less “noble” Spanish grapevines

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  • Viña La Rosa (Cachapoal, est. 1824)
  • Carta Vieja (Loncomilla Valley, est. 1825)
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Chile

7 founding father estates est. in the mid to late 1800s

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  • Cousiño Macul est 1856
  • Viña San Pedro est 1865
  • Viña Errázuriz est 1870
  • Santa Carolina est 1875
  • Santa Rita est 1880
  • Concha y Toro est 1883
  • Undurraga est 1885
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10
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Place the following Chilean founding fathers in order in which they were established.

Viña San Pedro

Santa Carolina

Cousiño Macul

Undurraga

Concha y Toro

Viña Errázuriz

Santa Rita

A
  • Cousiño Macul est 1856
  • Viña San Pedro est 1865
  • Viña Errázuriz est 1870
  • Santa Carolina est 1875
  • Santa Rita est 1880
  • Concha y Toro est 1883
  • Undurraga est 1885
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11
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Chile’s 1st modern winery and the oldest still in operation today

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Viña Ochagavía

  • 1851, founded by Silvestre Ochagavía, after visiting France and gathering vines of his own
  • Wealthy Chilean industrialist
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12
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Atacama

Producer

A

Viña Ventisquero

  • Few ha of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc
  • In Valle del Huasco DO
  • Label: Kalfu
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Elqui

Producer

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Viñedos de Alcohuaz

  • New project by Marcelo Retamal x Patricio Flaño
  • caves in mountainside, old and cosmic, foot-crushing Syrah in stone lagars, aging in concrete eggs
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14
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Valle del Maipo DO

4 Major Producers

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  • Almaviva
  • Chadwick
  • Concha y Toro
  • Cousino Macul
  • Santa Rita
  • Undurraga
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Alto Maipo

5 Producers of Cabernet and Bordeaux Style Blends

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  • Concha y Toro ‘Don Melchor’
  • Almaviva
  • Viñedo Chadwick
  • Alvaro Espinoza’s Antiyal
  • Santa Rita’s ‘Casa Real’
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16
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Cachapoal

3 Major Producers

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  • Altaïr (bright star in Aquila (the Eagle) constillation)
    • est 2001, originally Laurent Dassault of Ch La Fleur (St-Émilion) x San Pedro, now only San Pedro
  • Anakena
    • ​est 1999
  • La Rosa
  • Morande

​Altaïr and Anakena both in Alto Cachapoal, where Pedro Parra also planted a vineyard at 1000m

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Valle del Colchagua DO

3 Major Producers

A
  • Casa Lapostolle
  • Casa Silva
  • Cono Sur
  • Los Vascos
  • Montes
  • Mont Gras
18
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Valle del Curico DO

3 Major Producers

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  • Alta Cima (“high summit”)
    • Owned by Klaus Schröder, studied in Geisenheim, moved to Chile in 1965 as winemaker for Viña San Pedro
  • ​Aresti
    • est 1951, domaine bottling in 1999, 3 generations
  • Echeverría
    • est 1930, family moved from Basque country to Chile in 1740, purchaes 200 acres in 1923 and planted vinifera (vs more common criolla), purchases fruit in Maipo and Colchagua
  • Miguel Torres
    • ​est 1979, temp-controlled winemaking, modern presses, since mid ’80s clonal selection, importing plant material
19
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Valle del Maule DO

3 Major Producers

A
  • Chilean Wines Company
  • Lomas de Cauquenes
  • Via Wine Group
20
Q

Viña Montes ‘Purple Angel’

Grape

Region

A
  • Carmenere
  • Colchagua
21
Q

Montes

Year est.

A

1987

  • Two original founders: Aurelio Montes, Douglas Murray
  • 1988, another two founders joined: Alfredo Vidaurre, Pedro Grand
22
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Montes

Original name when established

A

Discover Wines

23
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Montes (Discover Wines)

2 original founders

A
  • Aurelio Montes
  • Douglas Murray
24
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Montes

2 founders that joined the original Aurelio Montes and Douglas Murray in 1988

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  • Alfredo Vidaurre
  • Pedro Grand
25
Q

Producer that practices Feng Shui in the winery

A

Montes

26
Q

One the first wineries to export to the USA

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Undurraga, 1903

27
Q

Who’s this?; what winery did he found?; when and where?

A

Don Maximiano Errazuriz

  • Founded Errazuriz
  • In 1870 in the Valle de Acancagua
28
Q

Errázuriz

Location

A

Panquehue

  • w/in Aconcagua Valley
  • More moderate climate in the otherwise distressingly hot grape growing region
  • Errázuriz: 1 of Chili’s most prominent estates and winemaking families
29
Q

Francisco Baettig

A

Current winemaker for Viña Errázuriz

30
Q

Almaviva

Owners

A

Almaviva

  • Baron Philippe de Rothschild (Mouton) x Concha y Toro
  • est 1997
  • Puente Alto, Maipo
  • Known for Cab Sauv, Carmenère, Cab Franc
31
Q

Vina Undurraga

Founder

A

Don Francisco Undurraga

32
Q

Undurraga

Winemaker and Consultant Winemaker

A
  • Winemaker: Hernan Amenabar
  • Consultant Winemaker: Alvaro Espinoza
33
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Winemaker of the Year 2012

Chilean Circle of Food and Wine

(group of foremost food and wine critics in Chile)

A

Felipe Tosso

of Ventisquero