At A Glance
- Founded: 1934
- Base: Isla de Maipo, Valle Central, Chile
- Featured bottle: Santa Inés 2020
- Grapes: 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Malbec
- Cellar detail: one year in French barriques
The Producer
Santa Teresa S.A. is a Chilean group of companies founded in 1934, with wine at the centre of its activity since the beginning. Its Red & Wines operation works from Isla de Maipo and produces and exports Chilean bulk wine, placing the company in both agricultural production and international supply. A named bottle, Santa Inés 2020, brings that large-scale operation into focus through a defined Cabernet Sauvignon–Malbec blend and a year in French oak.
Place
Santa Teresa’s vineyards are in Isla de Maipo, within Chile’s Valle Central, between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. That is the stated origin for Santa Inés 2020: a dark-fruited red made from 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Malbec. Isla de Maipo is therefore the geographical thread connecting the company address, vineyards and wine production.
Soil And Site
The vineyards lie in Isla de Maipo, between mountain and ocean. Santa Inés 2020 takes its shape from 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Malbec and a year in French barriques.
Story
Santa Teresa began in 1934 as a group of companies devoted to wine production. Its present Red & Wines operation remains focused on Chilean bulk wine for export, while the Santa Inés vineyards have held organic-farming certification since 2001. Those two dates frame the story: long-running wine production, then a stated certified-vineyard context for a wine such as Santa Inés 2020, where dark fruit meets French-oak notes of vanilla and tobacco.
Vineyards And Cellar
For Santa Inés 2020, the farming detail is the vineyards’ organic-farming certification, held since 2001. The clearest cellar fact is more useful in the glass: the wine spent one year in French barriques. That oak ageing is reflected in vanilla and tobacco around the blend’s blackcurrant and blackberry fruit, making the barrel choice a tangible part of its aroma and finish.
Wines
Santa Teresa works at two scales. Red & Wines produces and exports Chilean bulk wine, while retail listings identify Santa Teresa as producer of Santa Inés 2020, De Martino Legado Carménère and De Martino Legado. Santa Inés brings the clearest wine detail: 60% Cabernet Sauvignon supplies the larger share of the blend, Malbec makes up the remaining 40%, and a year in French barriques brings oak into a developed, fruity and slightly spicy red.
Santa Inés 2020 is not presented as a stand-in for every wine connected to Santa Teresa. It brings a clear grape split, cellar treatment and flavour description: blackcurrant and blackberry at the fruit core, then vanilla, tobacco, oak and spice. The other named listings show that Santa Teresa’s production reaches beyond one label, without supplying enough detail to assign them the same fruit profile or oak treatment.
In The Glass
Santa Inés 2020 opens on blackcurrant and blackberry, flavours that suit the Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec blend at its centre. The palate is developed and fruity, with a slightly spicy cast rather than a simple burst of fresh berry fruit. One year in French barriques adds oak, vanilla and tobacco, so the dark fruit carries more than sweetness alone. The finish stays with blackberry, tobacco and spice, leaving a dry-fruited, oak-shaped impression.
A Bottle To Understand It
Start with Santa Inés 2020. Its label provides the firmest picture of Santa Teresa in a bottle: organically certified vineyards, Isla de Maipo origin, 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Malbec and one year in French barriques. Expect blackcurrant and blackberry first, followed by vanilla, tobacco, oak and slight spice. It is the most informative first pour because the blend and barrel ageing explain the developed, dark-fruited profile while keeping the focus on the wine itself.
Anecdote
In 1934, Santa Teresa S.A. was founded as a group of companies and began the wine activity that still defines its business. The company’s Red & Wines operation works from Isla de Maipo, at Manuel Rodríguez 229, producing and exporting Chilean bulk wine. Decades after the founding date, the Santa Inés vineyards gained organic-farming certification in 2001. Santa Inés 2020 then put a named wine alongside that corporate history: a 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Malbec blend aged for one year in French barriques, with blackcurrant, blackberry, vanilla and tobacco.
Final Word
Santa Teresa’s useful starting point is concrete: a wine company founded in 1934, vineyards in Isla de Maipo and a red blend shaped by French oak. Santa Inés 2020 turns those facts into a glass of blackcurrant, blackberry, vanilla, tobacco and spice.