Producers

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Errazuriz ‘Sena’

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

Question 2

2004 Berlin Tasting

1st place wine

Answer 2

Errazuriz ‘Vinedo Chadwick’ 2000

Question 3

MOVI

4 Producers

Answer 3

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

Question 4

MOVI

Year est.

Answer 4

2009

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

Question 5

MOVI

Year est.

3 Members

Answer 5

Movimiento de Viñateros Independientes

• est 2009, with 12 members at the time
• Garage Wine Co., Montsecano, Von Siebenthal, Sigla, Kingston, and Garcia + Schwaderer

Question 6

3 producers that dominate 85% of Chile’s domestic consumption

Answer 6

• Concha y Toro
• Santa Rita
• San Pedro

(and Associated Brands)

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Concha y Toro

• over 9,000 ha of vines spread throughout Chile and Argentina

Question 8

2 early winegrowing estates 1st to replant their vineyards with French cuttings, ripping out less “noble” Spanish grapevines

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Chile

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

Answer 9

• 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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

• 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

Question 11

Chile’s 1st modern winery and the oldest still in operation today

Answer 11

Viña Ochagavía

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

Question 12

Atacama

Producer

Answer 12

Viña Ventisquero

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

Question 13

Elqui

Producer

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Valle del Maipo DO

4 Major Producers

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Alto Maipo

5 Producers of Cabernet and Bordeaux Style Blends

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Cachapoal

3 Major Producers

Answer 16

• 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

Question 17

Valle del Colchagua DO

3 Major Producers

Answer 17

• Casa Lapostolle
• Casa Silva
• Cono Sur
• Los Vascos
• Montes
• Mont Gras

Question 18

Valle del Curico DO

3 Major Producers

Answer 18

• 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

Question 19

Valle del Maule DO

3 Major Producers

Answer 19

• Chilean Wines Company
• Lomas de Cauquenes
• Via Wine Group

Question 20

Viña Montes ‘Purple Angel’

Grape

Region

Answer 20

• Carmenere
• Colchagua

Question 21

Montes

Year est.

Answer 21

1987

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

Question 22

Montes

Original name when established

Answer 22

Discover Wines

Question 23

Montes (Discover Wines)

2 original founders

Answer 23

• Aurelio Montes
• Douglas Murray

Question 24

Montes

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

Answer 24

• Alfredo Vidaurre
• Pedro Grand

Question 25

Producer that practices Feng Shui in the winery

Answer 25

**Montes**

Question 26

One the first wineries to export to the USA

Answer 26

**Undurraga, 1903**

Question 27

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

Answer 27

**Don Maximiano Errazuriz** * **Founded Errazuriz** * **In 1870 in the Valle de Acancagua**

Question 28

Errázuriz Location

Answer 28

**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

Question 29

Francisco Baettig

Answer 29

**Current winemaker for Viña Errázuriz**

Question 30

Almaviva Owners

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Vina Undurraga Founder

Answer 31

**Don Francisco Undurraga**

Question 32

Undurraga Winemaker and Consultant Winemaker

Answer 32

* Winemaker: **Hernan Amenabar** * Consultant Winemaker: **Alvaro Espinoza**

Question 33

Winemaker of the Year 2012 Chilean Circle of Food and Wine (group of foremost food and wine critics in Chile)

Answer 33

**Felipe Tosso** **of** **Ventisquero**