A native of Concepción, Roberto – largely inspired by his uncle – has always dreamed of making wine.
He studied to be an Agronomist and Enologist, then worked for large commercial wineries in Chile, South Africa and Canada. Returning to Chile, Roberto spent some time with Louis Antoine Luyt, and this experience – as well as working with producers such as Mosse in France (Loire) – helped shape his perception of wine: natural winemaking was the path he wanted to follow.
Roberto is part of the very small-scale, zero-input agriculture and winemaking community of the Old South: the old farmers work traditionally, having never used chemicals. However nowadays, the Chilean culture doesn’t pay much importance to historic winemaking, and he felt he had to do something to try and keep tradition alive.
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