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Santiago, Chile, November 20, 2024 – The Chilean wine industry has achieved a significant milestone with Don Melchor 2021 being named #1 in Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines of 2024 list. This iconic Cabernet Sauvignon is produced by one of Viña Cocha y Toro’s subsidiaries, Viña Don Melchor. Wine Spectator,…
Read moreRecognizing Don Melchor with an excellent 97 points, Suckling described the most recent vintage as “deep and serious with black olives, blackberries, blueberries, tobacco leaf, sweet red capsicum, ash, dried meat and a hint of black chocolate. This is a more direct, full-bodied Don Melchor, filled with solid blackberries and…
Read moreThe report calls the 2020 Don Melchor the winery’s “best expression yet” and saying that the wine “shows the duality of Puente Alto.” See the full article from The Drinks Business, one of the wine industry’s most important media.
Read moreThe gardens of the Mandarin Oriental Santiago were the perfect setting for tasting the award-winners from the 2023 Descorchados wine guide in which the 2020 Don Melchor received 96 points and was named one of the best wines of the Alto Maipo. Strolling through the green gardens and terraces of…
Read moreIn its most recent edition, the specialized wine magazine Club Oenologique rated Don Melchor 2020 with 94 points, commending it as one of the best Bordeaux blends produced outside Bordeaux. Noted Bordeaux wine critic Jane Anson wrote the review, calling it a “true Bordeaux blend.” The outstanding results are due…
Read moreThe article by Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, journalists and collaborators of the celebrated Wine Enthusiast magazine, write that “today the best winemakers in Argentina and Chile are producing wines from a single vineyard and from small plots that rival the best in Napa or Bordeaux,” and include the 2020…
Read moreThe magazine’s annual ranking presents the wines that have both received the highest scores throughout the year and impressed the group in charge of tasting the selection. Of the 21,000 wines that were blind tasted, reviewed, and scored, Don Melchor claimed the 78th position with 94 points. This is the…
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