After a rainy winter season, a cool spring and pleasant warm summer days, this was an excellent season, with yields in line with expectations, outstanding grape quality and wines that will express the goodness of each place of origin.

“The 2024 vintage has been a resounding success, exceeding all our expectations and consolidating our commitment to quality and excellence. In this vintage, we were able to meet the committed quality standards and for all grape varieties. Thanks to meticulous vineyard management and favourable weather conditions, we have obtained grapes of exceptional quality”, are the words of Max Larraín, Concha y Toro’s Agricultural Director, which summarize what was a great 2024 vintage.

The 2023-2024 season was a very special one. It began with a rainy winter, one of the wettest in the last 30 years, which allowed the soils to be clean of salts, with plenty of water available and ready to start the season. At the same time, rainfall was concentrated in the winter months, an ideal scenario for vine cultivation, with more than 600 millimetres of water falling in the central zone.

Marcelo Papa, Technical Director of Concha y Toro and Chief Winemaker of the Amelia and Marques de Casa Concha Heritage wines, explains that since we were under the influence of El Niño, in general terms the spring was cool, with more cloud cover and therefore lower temperatures, and higher humidity in the soils due to the winter, causing a delay in the development of the vines. “We finished veraison two weeks later than in a normal year, but once this stage was over, the temperatures during ripening were very favourable, thus recovering a week, reaching harvest with only a week’s delay,” he says.

However, the 2023-2024 season was considerably different for the northern vineyards. While for the central zone this was a very cool season, with notably more rainfall and yields in line with expectations -or even higher-, for the Limarí Valley it was a warmer season, with low winter rainfall and lower yields than usual. This led to bringing forward the harvest date by about ten days, while in central and southern Chile, the harvest had to be delayed by the same amount.

“We are very pleased with the quality of the 2024 vintage: a cool year, with abundant winter rainfall, and resulting in wines of attractive colour, rich fruit expression, great balance, lower alcohol than in previous years, and balanced natural acidity. This vintage will result in wines of an elegance and tannin quality comparable only to those best vintages in history,” concludes Marcelo Papa.

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