TAGUA TAGUA

Since 1834, the Correa family has farmed the land in San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, Chile. Five generations later, they export to China, Brazil, the United States and Ireland from their own winery with a capacity of 7 million litres, farming 518 hectares across the Colchagua, Rapel and Maule valleys.

It all begins in 1834 with José Gregorio Correa Albano, who bought the first land in the Los Maitenes area of San Vicente de Tagua Tagua. His son Salvador Correa Ovalle continued to expand farming in the area with vineyards, crops and livestock, and went on to become the town's mayor. Nicolás Correa Larraín carried on the family winemaking tradition with his own brand, "los 14 Hermanos", and sent one of his sons, Santiago, to study oenology in Mendoza, Argentina. On his return from Argentina, Santiago Correa Muzard devoted the farming business to wine, bought land in the Colchagua and Maule valleys in addition to Cachapoal, and built a new winery that today has a capacity of 5 million litres. Today the fifth generation, Santiago and José Tomás Correa Lisoni, both agronomists, leads the project: they started the first direct exports of bulk wine to China and Europe, and in 2017 built new bottling facilities, having begun exporting bottled wine to China, Brazil, the United States and Ireland in 2014.

The winery takes its name from a native bird that lives in the San Vicente area: the tagua tagua. A wine that is, in the family's own words, the result of the perseverance of people who managed to tame this very particular landscape and its harsh climate to create a world-class product, the fruit of almost 120 years of adventure and family tradition. Today the winery farms 518 hectares of its own vineyards across three different valleys, Colchagua, Rapel and Maule, with varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Carmenère, Merlot, Syrah and Barbera, some planted almost 150 years ago, tended by five generations of growers who respect nature as wild and rebellious as it is.