Errazuriz Vinedo Chadwick
Maipo Valley
2018

The producer

Vine Errazuriz was founded by Don Maximiano Errazuriz in the Aconcagua Valley in 1870, yet the estate’s modern history starts with descendant Alfonso Chadwick taking control at the middle of the 20^th century. His son Eduardo joined him soon after. Alongside running one of Chile’s most recognized wine estates, Alfonso is also considered to be one of the best polo players in the country’s history; he was even the captain of the national team for many years. In 1993, son Eduardo succeeded him as president of Vina Errazuriz. Vinedo Chadwick, has become a Chilean icon, sought out for its purity, complexity, and multi-layered fruit concentration.

The wine

“Vinedo Chadwick” is a super prestige cuvee, produced by Errazuriz, which honors the memory of the late Don Alfonso Chadwick Errazuriz. The first vintage was 1999 and released in 2002. Fruit for Vinedo Chadwick is grown on a 15-hectare vineyard, located 650 meters above sea level at Puente Alto in the Maipo Valley at foot of Andes along northern bank of Maipo River. The soil consists of clay loam over alluvial layers of high stone content.

A pure varietal Cabernet Sauvignon, aged in French oak barrels, the 2014 vintage of Vinedo Chadwick was the first Chilean wine to score 100 points from Robert Parker, and is uniquely Robert Parker’s highest-rated Cabernet Sauvignon from Chile for five consecutive years. In the famous Berlin 2004 tasting, the 2000 vintage of Vinedo Chadwick was awarded first place beating several Bordeaux first growths.

We choose our wines based on a range of criteria (see how we choose our wines) of which critic scores is just one. Rather than simply highlight the best score to promote a wine, our average critic score is calculated from the scores provided by several respected wine critics, who we follow for specific regions. They do not represent all critic scores and, wherever possible, we try and give more weight to more recent reviews. Where appropriate we consider market-based scores like Global Wine Score or Wine Searcher Average scores.

As a rule, we look to offer wines that achieve a 92/100 average critic score or better and frankly a lot of very good wines simply don’t make the cut. As a high-end provider we want to reflect that positioning in the quality of wines we offer. Such wines are only a tiny fraction of those generally on offer in the market. We believe that an average score is a more conservative and representative approach, but it is still subjective and only offered as a guide to our customers, who will (and should) do their own research. We will add individual critic scores to our website in the future.