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Hi everyone,
Just wondering if anyone knows where I can purchase some Chilean premium red wines, what im after is:
Almaviva (Baron Philippe de Rothschild & Concha y Toro)
Don Melchor (Concha y Toro)
Both are red wines, the Don Melchor use to be readily available but latel havent been able to find any specailly the current vintage, anybody here know were to find both of these wines?
Any help will be truly appreciated, thanks

Almaviva wrote:Hi everyone,
Just wondering if anyone knows where I can purchase some Chilean premium red wines, what im after is:
Almaviva (Baron Philippe de Rothschild & Concha y Toro)
Don Melchor (Concha y Toro)
Both are red wines, the Don Melchor use to be readily available but latel havent been able to find any specailly the current vintage, anybody here know were to find both of these wines?
Any help will be truly appreciated, thanks

Hi Steve, and welcome.

I don't think Don Melchor has been imported into Australia for a while now.
Almaviva used to be, the last vintage I'm sure was imported was 2001, although the 2003 may have come in as well. I don't think it has an Australian importer anymore either. A shame, the 2001 was a cracking wine. (I bought both 2001 Don Melchor and Almaviva in Chile in 2005).
I believe the premium Montes Alpha wines can still be found, but I've never seen them myself.

You might find older stock languishing on retailers shelves.

Depending on the quantities you're looking for and how much you're prepared to pay, you could consider looking in NZ,

cheers

Andrew

Thanks for that Andrew

In fact there are 6 bottles of 2003 Almaviva available at the current Langtons auction:

http://www.langtons.com.au

Yeah I saw those but it's six bottles & they will probably sell for a bit of cash!!!!!
To top it off im not a member of Langtons, im sure you have to pay an anual fee to join

Almaviva,

A certain very large wine chain certainly has Montes wines. Concha y Toro I don't think are imported into Australia.

When I was in Australia in 2007 Dan Murphy was clearing out their Don Melchor (a salesman told me he bought the last bottle in his store) and the Marques de Casa Concha.

Mahmoud.

When I was in Australia in early 2007 Dan Murphy was clearing out their Don Melchor (a salesman told me he bought the last bottle in his store) and the Marques de Casa Concha.

Mahmoud.

It's a shame you can no longer buy the wines from Concha y Toro here in Aussie, they make some killer reds, hopefully they do negotiate a new deal with an Aussie distributor, I miss that Don Melchor a great wine at a great price

I'm not sure if you'd find the Don Melchor to be "a great price" anymore. As with so many other wines, due to high scores in wine mags, the price has really gone up over the last few vintages. The 2005 just appeared (and disappearted very rapidly), and it was $65 CAD. So it would probably be $80-85 in Oz now, given the normal obsene markup foreign wines seem to have there.

I passed this year, as there are a lot of great wines for $65 available. But there's no doubt that the Melchor is a great wine, especially after 8-10 years.