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VIÑA ERRAZURIZ. Founded in 1870 by Don Maximiano Errázuriz in Valle de Aconcagua. Decanter Magazine / The Top 50 power list. UK , July 2005 “Errázuriz provides the quality benchmark from Chile”. VIÑA ERRAZURIZ, THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN ERA.
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VIÑA ERRAZURIZ Founded in 1870 by Don Maximiano Errázuriz in Valle de Aconcagua Decanter Magazine/ The Top 50 power list. UK, July 2005“Errázuriz provides the quality benchmark from Chile”
VIÑA ERRAZURIZ, THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN ERA Don Alfonso Chadwick Errázuriz & Eduardo (1983)
FIRST TRIP TO BORDEAUX VISITING WITH EMILE PEYNOD (1985) “The father of the modern winemaking”
ROBERT MONDAVI CAME TO CHILE IN 1991… And became intrigued by the potential of Chilean wines
ROBERT MONDAVI “ I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible”. 1966 He pioneered the transformation of Napa Valley into a world-class wine region
ROBERT MONDAVI & BARON PHILIPPE DE ROTHSCHILD TheCalifornian wineindustry'sfirstinternationaljointventure 1978: Opus One, first icon wine from California
ROBERT MONDAVI & EDUARDO CHADWICK TheChileanwineindustry'sfirstinternationaljointventure Seña 1995, Chile’s first icon wine
A SHARED PASSION FOR EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION Tim Mondavi, Robert Mondavi, Eduardo Chadwick & Michael Mondavi
SEÑA, A UNIQUE HILLSIDE TERROIR IN THE VALLE DE ACONCAGUA 350 hectares
2003, MONDAVI’S LAST VISIT TO SEÑA’S VINEYARD Seña is the culmination of a wonderful partnership and a passionate journey
BIODYNAMIC FARMING SINCE 2005 In order to reflect a deep and authentic sense of origin
SEÑA, WAS CONCEIVED OF AS WORLD-CLASS WINE SINCE ITS INCEPTION HOWEVER… WE ALSO WANTED TO OBTAIN INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
OUR QUEST FOR INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION BLIND TASTINGS A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE UNBIASED VIEW OF THE WINES TASTED ULTIMATE ASSESMENT OF INTRINSIC QUALITY "BLIND JUSTICE"
INSPIRED IN THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS California v/s France, Steven Spurrier 1976 The historical blind tasting that changed the wine world
THE PARIS TASTING IMPRESSIONS “The Paris Tasting put us squarely on the world map of great wine producing regions… They saw we could make wines as good as the best in France.” Robert Mondavi, Napa1976.
THE PARIS TASTING IMPRESSIONS “The Paris Tasting destroyed the myth of French supremacy and marked the democratization of the wine world. It was a watershed in history of wine.” Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, 2001.
THE BERLIN TASTING January 2004 Ritz Carlton Hotel, Berlin
THE BERLIN TASTING The best wines of the world, the millennium vintages: 2000 & 2001 Rated:100 Parker points.
THE BERLIN TASTING 40 best wine experts from Europe
STEVEN SPURRIER, fromDecanter, UKmoderatedtheevent. ImpressionsaftertheBerlintasting. “Thevictorywasconclusivefor Eduardo Chadwick. Whydidthetastersputhiswinesfirst, second and fourth? Simplybecausethey are verygoodwinesindeed.”
JANCIS ROBINSON’S at Financial Times, UK February 14th, 2004 “OneenterprisingChileanwineproducer, Eduardo Chadwick of Viña Errázuriz, has managed to organise a similar evolutionarymilestonefortheChileanwineindustry… …at whatwill be doubtless come to be known in thehistory of Chileanwine as theBerlinTasting.”
THE BERLIN TASTING WORLD TOUR 2004-2013 Stockholm 2009 Helsinki 2011 Toronto 2006 Copenhagen 2008 London 2009 Moscow 2012 Amsterdam 2008 Berlin 2004 New York 2010 Zurich 2011 Seoul 2008 Tokyo 2006 Beijing 2008 Hong Kong 2010 Dubai 2013 Brasil 2005
SEÑA has beenthehighestratedChileanBordeauxblend forfifthconsecutiveyearsby Robert Parker. ROBERT PARKER RATINGS 94 pts. 92 pts. 95 pts. 96 pts. 95 pts. 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 SEÑA « isperhapsChile’smostfamousproducer and iconicwine» - TheWineAdvocate Dec’12
OUR NEXT CHALLENGE… TO SHOWCASE SEÑA’S AGEING POTENTIAL SEÑA VERTICAL TASTING WORLD TOUR