Pedro Parra y Familia

The winery

Pedro Parra grew up in Concepción and trained in France, where he did a master's in precision agriculture and a doctorate on terroir, with long spells in Burgundy. Since then he has advised wineries in Chile, Argentina, Europe, the United States and Australia. After more than twenty years reading other people's soils he wanted to make his own wine, and he chose Itata for its old vines, its cool coastal climate and its granite. Sources disagree on the starting date: his first wines under his own name are placed in 2013 or 2014, made in space rented from Clos des Fous, and Wine Advocate dates the launch of his winery to 2017 and the purchase of the facilities to 2021. Today the winery operates in Ñipas, in the municipality of Ránquil; press from 2018 and 2019 described it in Guarilihue, where almost all of his Cinsault vineyards still are.

The País and Cinsault come from a dozen small vineyards in Guarilihue and Ñipas, some rented and others worked together with their owners: head-trained, own-rooted, dry-farmed vines, plowed by horse and without herbicides, farmed organically without certification. There are fourteen wines and some 45,000 bottles a year, which he himself arranges in three tiers: the village wines (Imaginador, Vinista and the two In'n'Out), the premiers crus (Hub, Monk, Chet, Chick and Footprints) and the grands crus (Trane, Miles, Sonny, Bird and Resolution). The crus come from plots of 0.25 to 0.56 hectares: País planted between 1890 and 1910, Cinsault from the 1980s in Trane, Miles and Sonny, according to the website, and Chardonnay from 2007. The cru Cinsaults ferment whole-cluster in concrete, macerate for up to 65 days and age in concrete or in 1,500-liter foudres. The names were born in 2017, when his wife suggested he taste his first three crus blind and think about which jazz musician each one brought to mind; that is how Monk, Hub and Trane came about, followed by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, Chick Corea, Charlie Parker and Wayne Shorter.

The winery publishes no visits, hours or wine shop: its website gives only an email, pedro.terroir@gmail.com, and its Instagram account, so you have to write before planning a stop in Ñipas. To try its wines in Chile, Brotherwood La Tienda, in San Miguel (Santiago), sells several labels online; in November 2026 they ranged from CLP 29,900 for Imaginador and Vinista to CLP 89,000 for Resolution, with few bottles of each. The wines are also exported to markets such as the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.