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Viña San Pedro’s Altair: Two decades of an ongoing journey


San Pedro Altair

Vertical tastings are often a self-indulgent exercise through which producers try to assert the superiority, longevity and consistent quality of their wines.

However, sometimes an invitation to taste all produced vintages of a given label comes with the enticing challenging of revisiting its evolution, consider the missteps and give feedback on the direction and goals of the current winemaking team.

The latter was the case when the San Pedro team traveled from Chile to London for a tasting of all but one of the vintages of Altair so far released. A brave proposition, that showed the evolution of the wine, with the many questions, hesitations and changes of priorities along the way.

To a large extent, Altair’s journey mirrors that of Chilean fine wine as a whole: from a fascination with classical foreign paradigms to the recognition of a potential for difference and local identity – all backed by robust technical ability.

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Source : https://www.decanter.com/premium/vina-san-pedros-altair-two-decades-of-an-ongoing-journey-548989/

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