Undurraga Altazor 2022
£46.25
The wine
The flagship, from the Maipo Alto, made by the IWC's Red Winemaker of the Year. An exceptional wine of expressive aromatic layers, balanced concentration and wonderful complexity: deep red fruits and blackberries layered with cedar, tobacco, graphite and dark chocolate. The structured palate shows real depth and integrated tannins through what the tasting note rightly calls an everlasting finish. Chilean icon status without the icon mark-up.
The producer
Undurraga
View all Undurraga winesFounded in 1885, Undurraga is one of Chile's most prestigious wineries, farming 1,350 hectares of estate vineyard across the country's premium regions, from coastal Leyda to Cauquenes and the Itata, all certified by Sustainable Wines of Chile.
Head winemaker Rafael Urrejola has spent years researching the diversity of Chile's vineyard sites; the result is the emblematic Terroir Hunter range, single-site wines of startling precision. In 2023 Rafael became the first Chilean ever named Red Winemaker of the Year by the International Wine Challenge.
The range here runs the full register: traditional-method fizz from Leyda, the youthful U and Rebel Sip wines, gentle Light 8 bottlings at just eight percent, the Sibaris Gran Reservas, the Terroir Hunter collection, the rare Extinto old-vine Carménère, and Altazor, the grand Maipo flagship.
