Ravanal 2025 Gran Reserva Chardonnay

ABOUT THE PRODUCER

• Viña Ravanal sits in Placilla, at the eastern end of the Colchagua Valley, beside the old San Fernando–Pichilemu rail line. Mario Ravanal — eldest of eight, raised by a farmer father — studied agronomy at the Universidad de Chile and went to France in 1960 for postgraduate work in enology and viticulture at Montpellier and Bordeaux.
• On a visit home in 1965 he heard a property in Placilla was for sale, bought it for the vineyards already producing on it, and has spent the sixty years since among them. Some of those vines are over a hundred years old and were bearing fruit long before the family arrived.
• His three children — Carmen Paz, Pía and Mario Sebastián — are all enologists and run the estate today. Every vineyard is family-owned, in Placilla and San José de Manantiales, and everything is hand-picked.
• The valley floor runs stony, clay and deep alluvial, with a sharp day–night temperature swing off the Tinguiririca. Ripening is slow, yields are low, and concentration is the payoff.

ABOUT THE WINE

• The Chardonnay is the outlier in a red-dominated valley: Colchagua’s name is built on Carmenère and Cabernet, and the whites here live on thermal amplitude rather than coastal cooling.
• Estate vines averaging forty years old in the vineyards surrounding the winery, hand harvested and barrel fermented a few hundred meters from the rows.

Vintage: 2025 | Wine Type: White Wine
Varietal: 100% Chardonnay
Origin: Chile | Appellation: D.O. Valle de Colchagua
Vineyard: Estate — Placilla and San José de Manantiales, old-vine selection, hand-harvested
Elaboration: Hand harvested, gently pressed, fermented in French oak barrels and aged 12 months before bottling.

TASTING NOTES

Bright straw-gold. Expressive tropical fruit with toasted coconut, vanilla and toffee over yellow apple and lemon curd. Rich-bodied and polished in texture, the warm-day/cold-night swing keeping the acidity live under the ripeness, finishing long and elegant. Serve at 50–52°F.

TECHNICAL DATA

Alcohol: 13.5% | Format: 12 x 750 ml

PRESS & POINTS

Double Gold – Japan Wine Competition