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Between April 22 and 25, presenters, editors and directors of Mexican TV channels and the written media, including a television actress, visited Chile and various locations of Concha y Toro, with the sole purpose of getting a closer view of Chilean wine.

One of the places visited by these outstanding leaders of opinion was the Wine Center of Concha y Toro in Pirque, where they were able to see the estate-house park, vineyards, the garden with 26 different varieties of wine grapes and the cellars, including the world-famous Casillero del Diablo cellar.

During their visit to the Garden of Varieties, the presenter of the TV channel Grupo Imagen, Patricia Eversbusch, interviewed the southern zone fine wines executive, Alejandra Vallejo, before the cameras. The presenter said that this was “a great opportunity to learn about what surrounds the glamorous world of wine and make it more accessible to the public which often sees it as something very exclusive”. The representative of Concha y Toro said that precisely “one of the strengths of Concha y Toro is to have a broad variety of wines recognized in the different price segments, which enables products of excellent quality to be accessible to the public”.

Following the visit to the winery, the guests met the winemaker of Don Melchor, Enrique Tirado, who told them a little more about the virtues surrounding the Puente Alto vineyard, where this iconic Cabernet Sauvignon is produced and which imprints its unique and distinctive characteristics.

“The soil of Puente Alto is a stony type of alluvial original, with gravel deposited at the foot of the Andes Mountains by the river Maipo. This soil is poor in nutrients, permitting a balanced growth of the vines and enabling the color, flavor and aromas to be concentrated in their fruit. This vineyard also enjoys a privileged climate for Cabernet Sauvignon. There are important differences in temperature between night and day, which is fundamental for achieving a good ripening of the grapes and reaching the end of the season for the harvest”.

The role of the winemaker

After hearing from Enrique, the visitors participated in an activity specially prepared for them: a tasting of the seven blocks of the Puente Alto vineyard in order for them to participate in the “final blend of Don Melchor 2012”.

The guests were split into two groups, each led by a moderator: one by the Don Melchor winemaker Tamara Baeremaecker and the other by the southern zone fine wines executive, Alejandra Vallejo.

The exercise consisted firstly of tasting the 2012 vintage of the seven blocks, six of which are of Cabernet Sauvignon and one of Cabernet Franc, each being presented in a glass in front of each guest. Each participant then had to complete their tasting scorecard according to their perception of each block, detailing the color, aroma, structure, intensity, acidity, sweetness, balance and persistence, among other aspects.

After some minutes, and according to the average scores given by each of the guests for each block, the first blend of Don Melchor 2012 was decided for each group. With that first blend, the members of each group could determine the third and final blend of Don Melchor.

Following a hard-fought blind voting of the wines of both groups, the winning blend was the table of Alejandra Vallejo with 11 votes in favor, only two more than those received by the wine of the winemaker’s group.

Edith Serrano, presenter of the Azteca TV channel, found this a very interesting activity: “it seemed very difficult for me to make the ideal combinations and achieve the taste and the different aromas and consistencies. All the blocks seemed delicious”.

The editor of the magazine Esquire of the Editorial Televisa, Ricardo García, said that “visiting the winery was very enriching. It is all so orderly and is shown so didactically that for people like us from outside we are given a small inkling of what Concha y Toro means. The tasting process was also very interesting as taking you to make a wine is to participate a little in the difficult decision about how to give a face, with aroma and flavor, to a wine; it takes you closer to the decisions that the winemakers have to make”.

Harvesting the grapes of Don Melchor

Another surprise activity led by this group of influential people was a visit to the Puente Alto vineyard where they took part of the harvesting of this iconic wine with their own hands.

For this, the winemaker himself gave some recommendations, including the taking of the bunch with care and cutting it from below to above to avoid accidents with the pruning scissors. Each of the guests then put on an overall, took a bucket and scissors, and was taken to the rows of vines to collect the grapes which were already at their optimum point for harvesting.

When this activity was finished, Patricia Eversbusch, presenter of the Grupo Imagen TV channel took the opportunity to talk to Enrique in face of the cameras. “We have had a marvelous day here in Concha y Toro. We had the opportunity to know part of the preparation process of an iconic wine like Don Melchor, and we have also learned about harvesting the grapes directly in the vineyard. Something really interesting and which you yourselves can also take part in when you visit Chile”, concludes the presenter to her viewers and inviting them to visit the winery.

The winemaker of the Gran Reserva Serie Riberas line, “Tito” Urzúa, tells us about the weather conditions in the valley during 2012: “The start of the 2012 winter in Maule was very rainy but there was practically no rain in July, amounting to just 17 mm of water that month. Although it rained a little more in August and September, we did not reach a normal year, so the off-season rains of November and December helped to almost complete an average year and gave a necessary injection of energy to the vineyard”.

Although it has been a year of big challenges due to these weather conditions, Tito says that “the measures necessary have been taken and today the vineyards are in optimum conditions. With respect to the yields of the 2013 harvest, these have been in line with estimates and the grapes are of a very high quality”.

Presentación Junta de Accionistas [Pdf 5,56 Mb]

A continuación el minuto a minuto de lo que está sucediendo en la Junta de Accionistas 2013:

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• 15:30 Todo listo para la realización de la Junta.
• 16:05 El Presidente Alfonso Larraín declara constituida la Junta de Accionistas 2013.
• 16:07: Se aprueba votación por aclamación de todas las materias de la Junta.
• 16:10 Se informa materias a tratar en la Junta.
• 16:12 Se propone omitir lectura Acta de Junta de 2012. Se aprueba.
• 16:14 Se aprueba el nombre de accionistas a firmar Acta de Junta 2013.
• 16:15 Presidente otorga la palabra al Gerente General, don Eduardo Guilisasti Gana, quien, da cuenta de los resultados de la Compañía. Presentación.
• 16:50 Se aprueba Memoria, Balance y Estados Financieros del ejercicio 2012. Estos informes fueron aprobados por el Comité de Directores sin observación.
• 16:50 Sobre la distribución de los dividendos se acuerda:  Se aprueba repartir, con cargo a las utilidades del ejercicio 2012, un último dividendo (N°251) con el carácter de definitivo, de $7,10 por acción, que se pagará a contar del día 22 de Mayo de 2013.  Este monto se agrega a los dividendos ya repartidos como provisorios con cargo a las utilidades del ejercicio 2012. Se acuerda mantener como política de dividendos el reparto del 40% de la utilidad neta, excluyendo de dicha utilidad la generada por la filial Fetzer Vineyards, la que se destinará a satisfacer sus necesidades de funcionamiento atendida su reciente adquisición. Se acuerda repartir con cargo a las utilidades que se obtengan durante el ejercicio 2013, tres dividendos, N°252, N°253 y N°254, de $3,00 por acción cada uno, que se pagarán con el carácter de provisorios, los días 30 de Septiembre y 30 de Diciembre de 2013 y 31 de Marzo de 2014.  Se acuerda pagar un cuarto dividendo por el monto que resulte necesario hasta completar el 40% de las referidas utilidades del ejercicio 2013, que se pagará en Mayo de 2014, una vez conocidos y aprobados los resultados del ejercicio por la Junta Ordinaria de Accionistas correspondiente.
• 16:53 Se designan auditores externos a KPMG por su experiencia, recursos, calidad profesional y honorarios competitivos. AFP Habitat y AFP Capital rechazan la moción.
• 17:00 Se designan como clasificadores de riesgo a Humphreys y Feller-Rate.
• 17:03 Se aprueba remuneración del Directorio: 1,3% sobre utilidades líquidas del ejercicio. Asignación Presidente 300 UF mensuales.
•  17:04 Se da cuenta de las múltiples actividades del Comité de Directores.
• 17:05 Se acuerda remuneración de miembros del Comité de Directores: Un tercio de lo previsto para los Directores Titulares, a un presupuesto de 25 millones de pesos anuales.
• 17:08 Se acuerda que la publicación de la próxima Junta se haga a través del periódico El Mercurio.
• 17:10 Se da cuenta de operaciones con personas relacionadas.
• 17:12 Se levanta la sesión.

Concha y Toro, through its Native Forest Conservation Program, registered with CONAF, Chile’s National Forestry Corporation, has 3,272 hectares of native forest living together with its estate vines and vineyards. The winery is thus committed to protect and conserve these true green lungs represented by the sclerophyllous forest. These trees, apart from capturing CO2 every day, allow the conservation of the biological diversity of soils and water and create a carbon drain which is a source of future mitigation of climate change. At the same time, an inventory is being made of native species for creating a register of them and thus developing a specific protocol for the care required for their preservation.

This is one of the projects that form part of the winery’s sustainable development strategy, in line with good agricultural practices, correct vineyard management, the rational use of natural resources and improvement of the processes having an environmental impact. The winery is also focused on optimizing the soil-climate-variety relationship, helping to identify and develop new origins and terroir and expanding their presence in the principal vine-growing valleys of Chile. Concha y Toro has also measured its carbon and water footprints and implemented, among other things, the light bottles program, using less glass, which reduce emissions for this concept. The project currently covers more than 90% of the bottles used.

Viña Concha y Toro is currently certified under the National Code of Sustainability of the wine industry led by Vinos de Chile and has begun projects demonstrating not only its commitment with the subject but which are central pillars of the winery’s business strategy.