Viña Undurraga
Appearance
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Location | Talagante, Chile |
Appellation | Maipo Valley |
Founded | 1885 (138–139 years ago) |
Key people | Founder: Francisco Undurraga Vicuña President: Mauricio Picciotto Kassin |
Acres cultivated | 4200 |
Cases/yr | 1,500,000 |
Website | undurraga.cl |
Viña Undurraga is a wines and sparkling wines producer, located in Talagante, Maipo Valley, 34 km from Santiago de Chile. It is one of the oldest wineries in the country, founded in 1885.[1] The company has a total of 1,700 hectares of vineyards, distributed in the valleys of Maipo, Rapel, Leyda, and Maule;[1] exports 75% of its wine production.[2] In 2016 it projected annual sales of 1.5 million cases of wine.[3]
Awards and honours
[edit]National:
- Vineyard of the year, in 2012, according to the Association Wines of Chile.[4]
International:
- Producer of the year, at the 2013 SWA Merchant Awards, awarded by the Sommelier Wine Awards.[5]
- Included in the top 100 wineries of the year, in 2012, 2013 and 2016, by Wine & Spirits magazine.[6][7][8]
Central winery
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Patronal house of Viña Undurraga.
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Water fountain of the patronal house.
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Undurraga winery in Fundo Santa Ana, Talagante.
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Vineyard's park, designed by George Henri Dubois.
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Wine barrel of Viña Undurraga.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Viña Undurraga". Corporación de Promoción Turística de Chile. Archived from the original on 2014-03-26. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- ^ "La cosecha de Undurraga". La Tercera. 13 February 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Viña Undurraga se reorienta y enfoca su estrategia hacia los vinos premium". El Mercurio. 29 October 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Viña Undurraga apunta a nuevos mercados". El Mercurio. 23 November 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Sommelier Wine Awards 2013: The Results". Imbibe Magazine. Archived from the original on 2014-12-16. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- ^ The Wine & Spirits Top 100 Wineries of 2012. The Wine & Spirits Magazine. 26 November 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ The Wine & Spirits Top 100 Wineries of 2013. The Wine & Spirits Magazine. 16 December 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ The Wine & Spirits 2016 Top 100 Wineries. The Wine & Spirits Magazine. Retrieved 3 December 2020.