2022, Etoile Solitaire , Vina Siegel , Colchagua Valley , 750ml

Vinification:

Pre-fermentative cold maceration for 5 days,with alcoholic fermentation occurring at 28-29°C to better extract polyphenols trom the wine. Post-fermentative maceration for 2 to 3 weeks. 

Finning and filtration: Once the wine has been blended it is smoothly clarified. Cold stabilisation occurs when necessary.

Aging: Aged in French oak barrels for 10 to12 months. 

Food Matchings: Maturegoat'scheese,cold meats and lamb. 

Winemakers notes: An intense cherry red colour. On the nose it presents aromas of dried figs. blueberries, black pepper with some smoked touches. On the palate it has a pleasing tannic structure with a persistent finish

The Vina Siegel 

Alberto Siegel was born in Santiago in 1946, the third generation in Chile of an Austrian family. His grandfather was an Austrian architect that built some very important and traditional buildings in downtown Santiago, at the beginning of the 20th century, including the Chilean Federal Reserve.

His father, Don Germán, was a viticulturist that spent most of his career in charge of Viña San Pedro’s vineyards near the town of Molina, 140 miles south of Santiago. There Alberto grew up, literally in the middle of the vines. It was not a surprise when he decided to study Agronomy and specialize in winemaking at the Universidad Católica in Santiago.

After finishing high school, he spent a year working in wineries in Germany, and upon his return in 1971, he joined the German company Bayer. His job was to sell fertilizers to farm owners in the Colchagua area, 100 miles south of Santiago. Through this job he got to know almost every land owner, most of which were grape growers and wine producers.

A few years later and as a natural consequence, he started to act as a wine and grape broker, selling the production of small owners to the big Chilean wineries. He established Sociedad La Laguna, and he soon became the most important Chilean broker in this field, a position that he holds today by far. There is hardly any Chilean person or company involved in the wine business that has not dealt with Alberto Siegel at least once.

In parallel, and together with his father, Alberto founded Viña Siegel in 1980. They started planting vineyards in Colchagua and building the Winery in Santa Cruz. When Don Germán died in 1998, Alberto became the owner, together with his family. In the beginning, Viña Siegel only sold bulk wines to the biggest Chilean wineries, like Concha y Toro, San Pedro and Santa Rita. In 1997, Alberto decided to enter the bottled wines business and made the necessary investments to go ahead with this project.