Aconcagua Valley
Don Maximiano country
- Soil
- Warm valley floor below Mt Aconcagua, with cooler coastal and hillside pockets.
- Style
- Powerful, ripe, premium Cabernet and Syrah; some cool-coast whites toward the sea.
- Top sites
- Home of Errázuriz; named for the Andes' highest peak.
- Vintages
- 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021
- Producers
- SeñaArboleda
Tip · A warm valley named after the Americas' tallest mountain — Errázuriz's Seña and Don Maximiano made it a flag-bearer for premium Chilean reds.
Value pick
Errázuriz 'Max Reserva' Cabernet · ~$18
Ripe, polished, dependable Aconcagua Cabernet from a great house — a long-standing critics' value pick.
Collector pick
Seña · ~$140 · 2018
The Chadwick–Mondavi-founded Aconcagua icon, a Bordeaux-style blend that has beaten the best of Europe in blind tastings.