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Berta was founded in 1997 by Don Pedro Pablo Errázuriz Ossa. A successful businessman, Don Pedro decided to start in the wine industry looking to combine his business skills with his passion for architecture, arts, construction, and innovation.
The winery is focused on growing Pinot Noir, Malbec, Cinsault, Moscatel and Riesling, and takes advantage of the distinctive climate and character that Itata provides.
Berta
Founded in 2015, Massoc Frères as a project has always been guided by the family’s affection for their Chilean and French roots, their faith in the Itata and Bio Bio valleys, and their desire to produce excellent wines from the old vines of southern Chile.
In 2017, the family bought an old winery located on the slopes of Cerro Cayumanqui, in the municipality of Quillón in Itata and restored it to adapt it to their small-scale winemaking style. All the Massoc Frères wines are made, aged and bottled on the estate.
Massoc Frères
Domaine Bousquet is one of the leading organic wine producers in Argentina, with French roots and a modern New World vision. The Bousquet family originally came from the city of Carcassonne, in the south of France, as the fourth generation of winemakers. In an effort to produce high-quality wines in the New World, the family focused on looking for the ideal place that would help continue their long-standing tradition and farm organically. Their mission took them to Mendoza in 1990, and specifically to the Gualtallary region of the Uco Valley – which at the time was relatively unknown.
In 1997, they acquired 110 ha of virgin land and started planting their vineyard and also built a state-of-the-art winery overlooking the vines and Andes mountains in the distance. The estate vineyard has an altitude of 1,200 m.a.s.l, benefiting from a constant cool breeze and a wide temperature range with the cooling mountain temperatures. 2002 was the year of Domaine Bousquet’s first vintage, and since then it has grown to become a leader in Argentina for organic wine managing over 1,200 hectares of vines in total.
Blanchard y Lurton is the winery and brand by famed Bordeaux winemaker François Lurton and Argentine vigneron Andrés Blanchard, making a neat portfolio of wines from the Uco Valley.
Highlights include their white blends and Sauvignon Blanc wines, which are some of the best examples of these categories made in the Uco Valley in Mendoza, RutArgentina.