Taita is Montes’ latest, supreme achievement. Our fi rst ‘super wine’– vinifi ed with passion, hallmark oenological rigour, and above all,wisdom. Put simply, it represents the sum of all the knowledge we have gained over 25 years of making fi ne wines. Many years’ of patient observation and research led us to a specifi c site in one of our best vineyards, from which comes this great wine of generous intensity, wonderful complexity and sublime...
The history of Montes seems like a dream, and that’s truly how it began, gradually becoming reality. It was in 1987 that our two original founders, Aurelio Montes and Douglas Murray, both highly experienced wine professionals, wanted to realize their dream of producing Chilean wines a quantum-leap higher in quality than the standards of the time. In 1988, they joined up with the other two founders, Alfredo Vidaurre and Pedro Grand, who brought...
Considered one of the most able practitioners in the cellar, winemaker Aurelio Montes has always maintained that '80% of good wine comes from the vineyards and only 20% from the cellar'. So vineyard care is paramount, enabling us to produce world-class wines. From the vineyard rows to the cellar, we meticulously study every variable in the winemaking process. Our commitment to method and process is almost obsessive; nothing is left to chance.
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Our cellar incorporates the latest and simplest wine processing technology. Believing that wine manipulation should be kept to an absolute minimum, we decided that pumps would have no place in the winery; instead, gravity moves grapes, juice and the wine around the building.
Avoiding pumps and opting for gravity allows us to give wine first-class treatment. From the moment harvested grapes are crushed on the receiving area of the roof, th...
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