Chile's most internationally celebrated red wine valley — the Colchagua Valley stretches 140km east from the Pacific coast into the Andes foothills in the O'Higgins Region, with the Tinguiririca river providing irrigation to alluvial and granite soils. The warm Mediterranean climate is ideal for Carmenère — Chile's adopted signature variety, brought from Bordeaux in the 19th century and thought extinct until rediscovered in the 1990s — as well as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Syrah. Apalta (in the eastern Andes foothills) has emerged as the appellation's finest sub-zone, home to Lapostolle's Clos Apalta and Montes's Alpha M.
| Year | Rating | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | — | Outstanding vintage with ideal ripening conditions. Carmenère and Cabernet of exceptional depth. |
| 2020 | — | Good vintage across the valley. Apalta sub-zone wines of excellent concentration. |
| 2019 | — | One of the decade's best. Long, even ripening season produced wines of great complexity. |
| 2018 | — | Reliable vintage with classic Colchagua character — ripe fruit, good structure. |
| 2017 | — | Outstanding year particularly for Syrah and Carmenère from the eastern Andes sites. |