Moose Jaw Times-Herald: The art of winemaking from Chile

Co-owner of Torreon de Paredes winery visits Moose Jaw

Alvaro Paredes, winemaker and co-owner of the Torreon
de Paredes winery in Rengo, Chile, shows a bottle of Don
Amado wine at Java Express at 23 Main St. on Sept. 29,
2013 where he showcased a selection of his wines.
 The Don Amado wine is named after the Paredes' father
and the winery's founder, Don Amado Paredes.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


For winemaker Alvaro Paredes, blending wine is similar to painting a picture.

“If you paint the picture with just one colour, it will be quite boring ... If you add more colour you are going to have a nice painting. With wine it’s the same thing,” said Paredes. “You are trying to grab with one variety, you grab the body of that wine, but then you want to improve the floral note that comes from other varieties, then a sweetness that comes from other varieties.

“So in those terms, I am saying that blending gives you that capacity to obtain more complex wines.”

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