Viña Almaviva
In 1997, Baroness Philippine de Rothschild and Don Alfonso Larraín, president of Concha y Toro, signed a partnership agreement to create a great Franco-Chilean wine that they called “Almaviva”. The estate includes a mansion, a bodega and a 50 hectare vineyard planted with three typically Bordeaux grape varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Carmenère. The name Almaviva was borrowed from classical French literature: Count Almaviva is the hero of Beaumarchais' famous play The Marriage of Figaro and also pays homage to the ancestral history of Chile with the reproduction of a drawing symbolic of the Mapuche civilization.
