About

Clos de Luz is launched in 2015 by Edwards Cosmelli five brothers, a young and dynamic team rescuing old family vineyards, traditional vinification techniques with a modern management attitude.

Our wines commitment is focus in quality, freshness, not over extracted, alcoholic and oaky style.

Clos de Luz is a family winery located in Almahue Valley, known as the birthplace of Carménère in Chile. The estate, bought by his great grandfather in 1892 had been on the family for 6 generations. Now spreads over 33 hectares of vineyards, planted in 1945 by Gabriel’s grandmother Luz. They are some of the oldest Carménère vineyards in Chile, and probably in the world.

The domaine's vineyards are 100% ungrafted. Because Chile is isolated from the phylloxera, they are planted “franc de pied”, giving a unique character to the wines. The vineyards are also 100% Massal selection from old vineyards, as opposed to a large majority of vineyards planted using clonal selection (all genetically identical plants). This method preserves the natural diversity of the plants.

Winemaking Philosophy In our Massal 1945 we look for elegance, balance and aging potential. Though our wines we want to express the singularities of our terroir Almahue, so we remain using just natural processes with minimal intervention.

Our key points include an early harvesting process made 100% by hand, fermentations starts spontanialy thanks to the indigenous yeasts, not acidification and chemical products are added to the wines. The wines are stabalised naturaly thanks to the cool temperature in the cellar.