Matías Michelini

The Climb

At Sitio La Estocada, the work is organized around consolidation: creative direction, viticulture, and winemaking brought into one place under Matías Michelini. The role reads as an endpoint only in the sense that it gathers earlier decisions into a single field of practice. Vines, site, and cellar are treated as parts of the same system, with each choice feeding the next.

Today

Winemaker is the current post, but the value of the title lies in what it allows to be held together. Matías Michelini describes the move as a way to gather creative, viticulture, and winemaking ideas developed over years under one roof at Sitio La Estocada. That kind of consolidation matters in the trade: it keeps the work from fragmenting, and it lets the vineyard remain central to the cellar rather than serving it as an afterthought. The emphasis is on continuity between land and process. At Sitio La Estocada, the winemaking is framed as a direct extension of the site, with the role of the winemaker stretching beyond technique into the organization of a whole way of working. The point is not to layer meaning onto the wine, but to keep the site legible in the finished bottle.

In Their Words “During the last few years I have been working to bring together all the creative, viticulture, and winemaking ideas I have developed over the years under one roof: Sitio La Estocada.” “My focus is now on deepening my particular vision of producing wines that are a faithful reflection of terroir, as if everything that composes it could be bottled.” Taken together, the statements describe a method built on alignment: ideas, vineyard work, and cellar decisions all pointed toward the same outcome. Matías Michelini’s language places terroir at the center of the brief. The aim is fidelity, not embellishment—wines that carry the composition of their place rather than covering it up.

Recognition

The named point of recognition is Agua de Roca Sauvignon Blanc. In the context of Michelini’s work, it marks the kind of result that gives a framework practical weight: a wine that stands as the clearest expression of the site-and-cellar approach.