Winemaker
Andrea Leon
Technical Director & Winemaker, Lapostolle and Clos Apalta
- Discipline
- Winemaker
Portrait of Andrea Leon
i. Biography
Andrea Leon is the technical director and winemaker at Lapostolle and Clos Apalta in the Apalta subregion of Chile’s Colchagua Valley, where she has been working since joining Lapostolle as an assistant winemaker in 2004. Clos Apalta’s official team page says she has been reading and interpreting the Apalta terroir since 2005, and a profile published in 2024 describes her as the woman behind Clos Apalta and Clos de Lican after taking over the technical management of the group in 2021.
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