Dona Dominga Founders' Vineyard Merlot Gran Reserva
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted duck, grilled pork chops, creamy mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
The Dona Dominga range by Casa Silva is a heartfelt tribute to the family's heritage and the elegant, nurturing spirit of the family's women, named in honor of Mario Pablo Silva's daughter, Dominga. Sourced from carefully selected vineyards within Chile's fertile Central Valley, this Gran Reserva Merlot highlights the region's exceptional ability to produce plush, expressive, and well-structured red wines. The grapes benefit from warm, sun-drenched days tempered by cool evening breezes from the Andes and the Pacific, allowing for slow, optimal ripening. Traditionally aged in a combination of French oak barrels and stainless steel tanks, this wine beautifully balances rich plum and dark cherry fruit flavors with subtle undertones of sweet spices, cocoa, and gentle toasted oak, embodying the warmth and hospitality of Chilean winemaking tradition.
🍾 About the Producer
With winemaking roots dating back to 1892 in the Colchagua Valley, Viña Casa Silva is one of Chile's most historic and distinguished family-owned wine estates, formally bottled under the family label by Mario Silva and his sons in 1997. Based at their ancestral estate in Angostura near San Fernando, the winery has emerged as a leader in Chilean viticultural innovation, spearheading landmark terroir research and pioneering extreme vineyards ranging from the cool coastal hills of Paredones to the glacial soils of Lago Ranco in Chilean Patagonia. Committed to sustainability, precision farming, and authentic varietal character, the estate produces an exceptional spectrum of expressive red, white, rosé, and sparkling wines. Casa Silva is universally acclaimed for defining modern Carmenère through benchmark bottlings like Microterroir, its flagship blend Altura, and crystalline cool-climate Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Merlot