CHILE
Don Melchor

The Beauty
of Composition

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Don Melchor - CHILE

Challenge.

Don Melchor is Viña Concha y Toro’s icon wine, named after Don Melchor Concha y Toro, the founding father of the winery, who in 1883 brought vines from Bordeaux to plant in the Maipo Valley. In 2019, the year of the release of the 30th vintage of Don Melchor, the wine officially moved away from the endorsement of the Concha y Toro brand to launch as Viña Don Melchor.

Viña Don Melchor required a new concept—expressed through a key visual, brand video and edits for social media—to communicate “One Story. One Terroir. One Wine”, the message behind this unique vineyard from which Chile’s first icon wine is grown.

Solution.

Working with the client, the claim “The Beauty of Composition” was chosen as a way to interpret the composition of Don Melchor: A wine created from the blend of the seven distinct parcels that make up its Puente Alto vineyard, along with the combination of its three brand pillars: Story, Terroir and Wine. Filming both in-studio and on-location at the vineyard and colonial house originally belonging to the Concha y Toro family, DAf created a video that deconstructed and presented these components, to later arrive at the final composition representing Don Melchor's “One Story. One Terroir. One Wine”.

Brand Video.

Key Visual.

Taking the form of a still life, the key visual presents a selection of elements that, once composed, reflect Don Melchor's family, natural and enological history. These include original manuscripts and books belonging to the Concha y Toro family, flora typical of the natural canals near the vineyard, a pomegranate (an important tasting note of the final blend), and pruning shears used by Enrique Tirado, Don Melchor's own winemaker, alongside the wine itself, the result of them all.

Behind the Scenes.

DAf filmed in-studio and onsite in Viña Don Melchor’s vineyards with Enrique Tirado, Don Melchor’s long-time winemaker.

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