(Santiago, Chile - April 2006) Winemakers at Concha y Toro are celebrating their best vintage ever and its expression in the 2005 Casillero del Diablo Cabernet Sauvignon.

Weather conditions were favorable throughout the year, starting with a rain-soaked winter, when the vines are dormant, to provide water reserves for the warm months ahead. The vines entered spring full of vigor, with well sized and balanced sprouts. Scattered showers from late summer into early fall posed no threat to the grapes, allowing sugars to accumulate slowly and moderately. The dry, clear autumn weather allowed the grapes to dictate their own schedule, and to be harvested with ideal concentration, ripeness, and sugar content.

Grapes for the Casillero Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 come from three vineyards, each expressing their own terroir and character. The Lo Mackenna Vineyard in the Maipo Valley, where Cabernet is king, yielded grapes with lots of fruit and smooth, elegant tannins. Grapes from this vineyard represent 41% of the final blend and give blackcurrant notes and elegance to the wine. The Palo Santo vineyard in the Maule Valley showed excellent quality, good color and concentration and no green notes, contributing 31% of the final blend, adding intensity, black cherry aromas and flavors, and what winemaker Marcelo Papa calls a “slightly wilder character.” Finally, higher than average quality fruit from the Quebrada de Agua Vineyard in Chile’s Rapel Valley made up the remaining 28% of the blend, bringing loads of red fruit and concentration.

Mr. Papa is confident that he was able to produce a blend that truly is greater than the sum of its parts, reflecting Chile’s unique terroir and Concha y Toro’s balance of traditional and modern winemaking. He will travel to the United States this May, bringing soil samples from each of the vineyards to bring the story of this extraordinary vintage to life.

Casillero del Diablo Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 is available in 750ml and 375ml bottles and priced at $10 and $5, respectively.

Concha y Toro remains the leading Chilean wine in the U.S., and its #2 overall import. In addition to Casillero del Diablo, Concha y Toro produces the popular Frontera and Xplorador lines, the premium Marques de Casa Concha and Terrunyo, the prestige Amelia Chardonnay, and Don Melchor, deemed by many as one of the world’s premiere Cabernet Sauvignons.