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Our winemakers spend every day imagining and creating great wines, thinking about the great moments when these wines will be enjoyed and always bearing in mind the food with which they will be paired. It is at this moment where the fruit and the origin of the wine will shine.
Felipe Tosso came to Ventisquero in 2000 after having visited and worked in some of the most important regions of the wine industry, including Napa and Sonoma in the United States, Barossa in Australia and some of the most emblematic wine-producing regions of Argentina, France, Spain and Italy.
He took part in the harvests at some of the great wineries of Bordeaux, including Château Canon-la-Gaffelière, Château La Mondotte and Château Clos de l’Oratoire. He graduated from the University of Chile with a degree in agronomy and a major in viticulture and winemaking. In 1995, Viña Concha y Toro appointed Felipe as their winemaker for the Cachapoal Valley, and he was responsible for some of their best Carménère wines.
Felipe now heads up Ventisquero’s winemaking department. He works closely with renowned Australian winemaker and close friend John Duval, with whom he co-produces the iconic wines Pangea, Vértice, Enclave and Obliqua.
Felipe is married with four daughters. He loves music, tennis, dogs and being in contact with nature.
John Duval was a winemaker with the renowned Australian winery Penfolds Grange for 29 years.
His love of wine began with his family who owned quality vineyards to the south of Adelaide, Australia, providing Shiraz grapes and vine cuttings to Penfolds.
He began to work for Penfolds in 1974 and was named Chief Winemaker there in 1986. During his time with the Australian winery, John supervised a dynamic period of development, winning many awards and a great deal of recognition for his wines, and helping to establish Penfolds as one of the world’s great wine brands.
He left the famous winery in 2002 to realize his dream of making his own wine.
In 2003, he began to work with Ventisquero Wine Estates, co-creating the winery’s flagship wines Pangea, Vértice and Enclave with Felipe Tosso. That same year, he launched his first wine, Plexus, for John Duval Wines.
He currently lives in the Barossa Valley, which is one of the most famous wine regions in Australia, and travels to Chile annually to work on blends at Ventisquero.
Winemaker with over 20 years of experience. After graduating from the University of Concepcion in 1999 with a degree in agricultural engineering, he began to work on his first harvest for Viña Concha y Toro. In 2000 he travelled to the United States for a harvest at Kendall-Jackson on the central coast of California (Monterey), mainly to produce Chardonnay. When he returned, he participated in a Ventisquero project in the coastal part of the Maipo Valley in Chile.
After a successful harvest with Ventisquero, he travelled to France to participate in a harvest for the company Castel-Virginie in the Languedoc-Roussillon Region.
In 2006, Alejandro officially joined the Ventisquero team, where he focuses on Pinot Noir and white wines.
Ángel has been a winemaker at Ventisquero for 10 years, but has been connected to wine and vineyards his whole life. His father was a winery supervisor, and Ángel grew up surrounded by barrels and vineyards.
He began his career at Viña Concha y Toro and later participated in two harvests at Ventisquero with Felipe Tosso. He left the wine industry for a time to work with the University of Concepción in Chile, on projects involving medicinal plants for small-scale producers in the Itata Valley.
He later worked with various Chilean wineries and then pursued opportunities in the United States and Spain. His experience with international wineries includes the time that he spent at the Flowers Vineyard and Winery in Cazadero, Sonoma Valley and Bodegas Borsao in Tabuenca, near Zaragoza in Spain. After a few years, Ángel returned to join Ventisquero’s winemaking team.
Carolina studied agronomy at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. In 2003, she completed a one-semester exchange programme at l’Ecole d’Ingénieurs de PURPAN in Toulouse in France. In February 2005, she began a five-month work placement with Ventisquero Wine Estates. After she completed the programme, she travelled to Spain to work a harvest at Bodegas Borsao in Aragón. When she returned she rejoined Ventisquero, this time as Assistant Winemaker.
Today Carolina is the Production Winemaker responsible for the winery’s finished and pre-bottled wine area. She is 42 years old and has three children.
Winemaker Deborah Witting studied agronomy with a focus on winemaking at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. She later completed a master’s degree in winemaking and viticulture at the Universidad Politécnica in Madrid.
Deborah has acquired substantial experience of winemaking both in Chile and abroad, by participating in harvests in prestigious wine regions such as Bordeaux, Burgundy, Alsace and Languedoc-Roussillon in France, as well as in Zaragoza in Spain. In Chile she has worked at Concha y Toro, Viña San Pedro Tarapacá and Vía Wines. She joined Ventisquero in 2018.
Deborah enjoys hobbies such as music, food, gardening, sports and travel.
