Almaviva

The winery Viña Almaviva is located in Santa Rosa in the near the capital Santiago de Chile. It was founded in 1997 as a between (Baroness Philippine de Rothschild) and the winery. The aim was to produce a top-quality Chilean red wine with a fusion of European and South American winemaking traditions. The model was the joint venture of her father Baron Philippe de (1902-1988) with . The highly symbolic name was given after the title hero of a trilogy of novels by the poet Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799), which later formed the basis for the libretto of "Marriage of Figaro" (the baroness is an opera fan).

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