With over 85% of the 2025 harvest completed, the company highlights the high quality achieved across its main winegrowing valleys. The season is expected to conclude by the end of May.
The 2025 harvest is progressing with outstanding quality results, particularly in the Maipo and Limarí Valleys, and preliminarily in Peumo, positioning this vintage as one of the best of the past ten years. Over 85% of the harvest is completed in Chile, with finalization expected by the end of May.
The wines from this vintage have shown exceptional quality, with great expression and fruit concentration, forecasting a remarkable performance across all the company’s wine ranges.
The 2024 winter season was marked by high rainfall and significant snow accumulation in the Andes Mountains, enabling excellent water recharge. Combined with balanced summer temperatures, this favored the development of healthy, well-balanced vineyards.
“The vineyards remained very well-balanced throughout the season, thanks to a water-rich winter and ideal climatic conditions during the growing cycle. This balance is reflected in the quality of the fruit we’re harvesting,” said Max Larraín, Agricultural Manager at Viña Concha y Toro.
These favorable conditions particularly benefited Concha y Toro’s vineyards: Quebrada Seca in the Limarí Valley; Pirque Viejo and Puente Alto in the Maipo Valley; and Peumo in the Cachapoal Valley.
LIMARÍ VALLEY
The Quebrada Seca vineyard in the Limarí Valley is the origin of Concha y Toro’s renowned high-end labels, such as Amelia, whose Chardonnay was named “White Wine of the Year” in 2025 by the prestigious critic Tim Atkin. The exceptional conditions during this vineyard’s harvest enabled the production of wines with outstanding freshness and minerality, making this one of the best seasons in recent years for the area.
For the 2024–2025 season, temperatures remained consistent with those of a cool year, creating ideal conditions for top expressions of varieties such as Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
Two key factors explain the high quality of this vintage in the region. First, a rainy winter allowed for optimal water accumulation, ensuring consistent irrigation and excellent water balance in the vineyard. Additionally, the vineyard maintained its typical 100-day cycle between flowering and harvest.
Second, during December and January—the most critical months for fruit ripening—cloud cover was above average. “This condition helped maintain precise fruit ripening, enabling a slow, controlled maturation with very good acidity levels and encouraging excellent fruit expression, freshness, and minerality—the hallmarks of wines from Limarí Valley,” commented Marcelo Papa, Technical Director at Concha y Toro.
MAIPO VALLEY – PUENTE ALTO
In the acclaimed terroir of Puente Alto, located in the Maipo Valley—home of the iconic Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon, named Wine of the Year 2024 by the prestigious publication Wine Spectator—the 2024–2025 vintage stood out for producing extraordinarily expressive wines with strong personality, rich textures and flavors, and outstanding finesse and purity.
These exceptional characteristics resulted from an extraordinary climatic year. The 2024 winter brought 501 mm of rainfall—well above recent years. This generous rainfall ensured excellent soil water reserves, supporting balanced vegetative growth in spring. This optimal growth laid the foundation for the structure and complexity reflected in the wines.
During January and February, warmer weather limited vegetative growth, enhancing the concentration of color, flavor, and structure in the berries. Later, a cooler March with wide diurnal temperature variation allowed for perfect ripening, preserving the full aromatic expression of the grapes.
Naturally low yields further intensified the aromas, flavors, and textures—always maintaining a balance and elegance enhanced by a second phase of ripening under cooler conditions.
Harvest took place between March 7 and April 22, yielding a Cabernet Sauvignon with small berries and remarkable concentration. The result: wines with notable aromatic complexity and a deep, refined expression of the Puente Alto origin. Thanks to a meticulous selection from each parcel of the Don Melchor vineyard, the viticultural and winemaking team succeeded in faithfully capturing the essence of this unique terroir at the foot of the Andes.
“This has been one of the best vintages we’ve seen in Puente Alto over the past ten years. The combination of vegetative balance, phenolic maturity, and ideal weather conditions has resulted in wines of great character, elegance, and aging potential,” stated Enrique Tirado, Technical Director and CEO of Viña Don Melchor.
PEUMO OUTLOOK
Preliminarily, and with a few weeks of harvest remaining at the Peumo vineyard—located in the Cachapoal Valley and birthplace of Chile’s first iconic Carmenere, Carmín de Peumo—the first tank samples and tastings reveal exceptional quality. According to Marcio Ramírez, Concha y Toro winemaker and Carmenere specialist: “This season’s Carmenere wines stand out for their remarkably deeper color compared to previous years, along with a juicy, fresh, and concentrated profile. All signs point to powerful, expressive wines. Without a doubt, this is a highly promising year for this emblematic variety.”
Viña Concha y Toro closes the 2025 harvest as one of the best of the last decade, thanks to a rainfall-rich winter and balanced weather conditions. This resulted in fruit with great expression, concentration, and freshness, with outstanding outcomes in the Maipo, Limarí, and Peumo valleys. Ideal ripening conditions and meticulous harvest selection cement as one of the most exceptional vintages in recent times.
