2024 Corporate Excellence Awards | 67 Isssue 9 2024 | 15 Contact Details Contact: Aurelio Montes Company: Montes Wines Web Address: https://monteswines.com/ most southerly and rural regions of the country, Mechuque in Chiloé, in Chilean Patagonia.” This project is impressive for a number of reasons, first and foremost being that it was the first vineyard to be set up in an area defined by its adverse climate. Diving deeper into this project, Aurelio tells us, “after planting vineyards here in 2018, we have successfully harvested several grape varieties and are almost ready to launch our first and unique wine from grapes grown in this region. Whilst we still face challenges, such as optimising the ripening processes, we are excited about the future of this project.” Ultimately, this is just one example of the desire to lead and innovate that exists within this Chilean wine company’s DNA. It is primarily for this reason that, even more than three decades on from the release of its first wine, Montes Wines remains one of Chile’s premier wine manufacturers, a trailblazer in the industry that leverages its respected reputation and track record of quality delivery to tread exciting new ground. From pioneering new wines to implementing a watering system that saves more than 840 million litres of water per year, Aurelio puts it best when he says that everything that this business does, it does with the future in mind. “Look out for Montes’s next steps”, he says in closing, and if the past threeand-a-half decades and counting are anything to go by, this means that great things are still to come from a brand that tore up the rulebook concerning Chilean wine and rewrote it to be better than was ever thought possible.
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