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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 moreThe 2021–2022 season had very well-balanced temperatures. The harvest was concentrated in the month of April with parameters that were very close to normal for the Don Melchor Vineyard. As a result, the wines are very concentrated in expression and full of red fruit, but, as always in Puente Alto,…
Read moreArgentine critic Joaquín Hidalgo, who has prepared his report on Chilean wines for the third consecutive year for Vinous, one of the industry’s most respected media on the global level, had nothing but praise for the 2019 and 2020 vintages of Don Melchor in addition to the excellent scores delivered.…
Read moreThe 2020 vintage of Don Melchor is 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, 1% Merlot, and 1% Petit Verdot and spent 15 months in French oak barrels (71% new and 20% second use). The wine is the result of rigorous work by the agricultural and enological teams led by the…
Read moreMore than 200 wines were presented over two days of tastings—all handpicked by Suckling from the best producers in the key wine regions around the world. Viña Don Melchor winemaker and technical director Enrique Tirado presented the 2014 and 2019 vintages of this Puente Alto icon, each of which were…
Read moreTomás demonstrated the potential of the Puente Alto terroir for the production of superlative Cabernet Sauvignon through the 2014 and 2019 vintages of Don Melchor, thereby ratifying its position as an authentic expression of this magnificent terroir in the select group of the world’s great wines and showing Chile’s tremendous…
Read moreDon Melchor is launched in Shanghai, in the tallest building in China and second tallest globally. The event was held at the Soiree Ballroom at J. Hotel in Shanghai Tower on the 105th floor. Around 50 guests gathered to participate in this event, including essential media, customers, and close friends…
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