ABSTRACT
Producing and drinking wine has been a millenary practice and its beginnings date from ancient Egypt. The wine sector continues to be highly dynamic in Chile, in terms of production, exports, and generation of employment, as well as in the development of high quality products. Ernesto Valls-Garrido, a Spanish immigrant, arrived at Chile in 1937 after escaping from the Spanish Civil War. At the age of twenty two he moved to Casablanca Valley, located in the central part of Chile, a well-named production sector of white wine and pinot noir of high quality. Conjointly with a Croatian partner, they started producing wine in small-scale, founding Vinedos del Pacifico on just twenty five acres. Juan Valls-Lopez, the grandson of Valls was appointed as a new winery production manager for Vinedos del Pacifico, a position that would allow him to move forward with the first draft of a sustainability project for the Vineyard.
