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"The Baettig wines are a noteworthy addition to Chile's top wines. They are produced in an artisanal and manual way from one of the cooler terroirs in Chile. All destined to achieve the expression of the place rather than the hand of the winemaker. Vibrant, precise and symmetric." - Luis Gutierrez, Wine Advocate.
Bursting onto the wine scene with one of the most talked about & highly lauded debuts out of Southern Chile, Vinos Baettig has quickly secured its place as one of the country's most exciting & impressive new wineries.
A passion project started by long time friends Francisco Baettig and Carlos de Carlos, Vinos Baettig has been a breakthrough for the D.O Traiguén of Malleco Valley where they planted their vineyards in 2013. Inspired by their ancestors who arrived in Traiguén and Purén from Switzerland in the 19th century, Baettig has become a vital member of the small but energetic community of producers from this cool-climate region. This special release offers an impressive array of Baettig wines across multiple, award-winning vintages.
Vintage 2020: A very dry and warm vintage that produced healthy grapes and excellent yields. Dry conditions lasted throughout the spring & summer, leading to an early harvest in order to preserve freshness, tension and concentration in the wines.
Vintage 2021: Rainy winter along with a wet June and July that assured excellent conditions for bud break and canopy growing during spring. The dry and moderately warm spring was accompanied by a late frost in September which kept yields small. Cool temperatures during summer and refreshing rains in December and January led to a long and soft ripening of the fruit and a late harvest.
Vintage 2022: Moderately cool and late season, with the heat summation below the historical average. The winter was relatively dry along with a dry and cool spring. Big frosts in September and October led to very small crop. This long and late season of small production translated into wines of great intensity and typicity, along with excellent tension and concentration.
4 products
4 products
- White Wine
- Chardonnay
- Sustainable, Volcanic
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2.00 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.00% alc./vol
About the Winery
Vinos Baettig
Francisco Baettig and Carlos de Carlos have been friends for more than 20 years and share a passion for high-quality wines that are genuine and connected to the land where they are made.
Their families arrived in Traiguén and Purén from Switzerland in the 19th century, where they worked in agriculture, surrounded by volcanoes, lakes and forests, silos, livestock, wagons, and wheat fields.
Francisco and Carlos' passion for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, together with their love for the land of their ancestors, was the inspiration for making their own wines that pay homage to these beloved terroirs. After studying the soil and climate in Traiguén for several years, they chose a plateau with volcanic soil between the Quino and Traiguén Rivers and planted vines in 2013.
"A promising project in a wine region that is the future of high-quality Chilean wines" - Patricio Tapia, Descorchados
Press Reviews
James Suckling
96 Points
Complexity and lots of stamina and verve here! Smoky lemons, nougat, ginger and flint provide a very flavourful palate. Intense and substantial on the palate, but still elegant and nuanced, with a hint of phenolics at the end. Long, focused finish. Think fine Meursault. Drink or hold.
Robert Parker
95 Points - Luis Gutiérrez
The 2020 Selección de Parcelas Los Primos Chardonnay was cropped from a warm and dry vintage, but in Traiguén in the south, it is not as warm as in the central valley of Chile. The grapes were harvested the first half of April; they harvested earlier and finished with more alcohol, still a moderate 13.5%, from a year of more body and rounder wines but without heat. The wine kept a pH of 3.16 and 6.9 grams of acidity. This also makes the wine a little more Burgundian, more Meursault than Chablis or Puligny, tasty, spicy with a tad more oak (all the new barrels for white are 400-liter ones, 38% of them new in 2020), because in warmer years there is a little more extraction from the oak. This is the warmest vintage so far, but the wine is still bone dry and there is no ripeness; but there's more weight and width. The wines have to show the differences of the climate conditions each year... 4,069 bottles were filled in July 2021.