At the end of 1996 the Canepa sisters, Gilda, Antonieta and Edda, at a time in life when many others would have been happy to retire, courageously decided to complete the Terramater project by linking their extensive vineyard holdings which had been in the family producing the finest Chielan wines since the late 1940’s with the construction of a brand new state-of-the-art winery.

Thanks to the determination and the will to succeed inherited from their Italian father who arrived in Chile from Chiavari near Genoa in 1912, this new winery has been given the name terramater, meaning Mother Earth and is already setting the pace in pursuit of producing premium Chilean wines of great quality and excellence. The three Terramater properties are set in the heart of Chile’s finest wine growing regions at Isla de Maipo, Curico and San Clemente have belonged to the family for many years. These 500 hectares of prime vineyards with the help of some good weather. Pure water from the Andean mountains and exceptional luminosity provide the winery with top quality grapes from such well know varietals such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc as well as the rarer varitals of Carmenere, Malbec, Zinfande, Shiraz, Pinot Blanc, Petit Verdot and Semillon.

Different textures, structure and depth of soil as well as the use of slope inclination at each of the three properties helps to produce wines of very diverse styles and characteristics. This allows Terramater to create new and attractive tastes and flavours by blending wines from the different vineyard properties.

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