Almaviva is a collaboration between two giants in the world of wine – Bordeaux’s Ch. Mouton Rothschild and Concha y Toro. The idea was to create Chile’s first “château”, combining Bordelais experience with Maipo Valley’s perfect climate to produce the country’s first Grand Cru Classé equivalent – a wine that has become, in James Suckling’s words, “a benchmark for the reds of the Andes”. The first vintage, 1996, was released in 1998 – the first non-Bordeaux wine to be distributed via La Place de Bordeaux.
