Carlos Basso
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VIÑA AMALIA
In 1922, Adolfo and Tulio Basso together, with their partner Emilio Tonnelier, started in the wine business. They bought “La Purísima”, a winery in Mendoza where they produced and sold wine in 220 litres wooden barrels.
In 1935 Basso and Tonnelier society bought “Santa Ana” winery, which was established in 1891. Their descendants, after turning Santa Ana into one of the top wineries of Argentina, sold it in 1996 to a Chilean winery: Santa Carolina. Among the members of the founding family, Hugo and then his son Carlos worked in Santa Ana winery. Carlos was the president of the firm from 1981 to 1996. In 1997 Hugo Basso and his sons acquired and remodelled a small winery in Carrodilla, near Mendoza city, which they named “Viña Amalia”. The grapes for their Cabernet Sauvignon come from their vineyard “Finca La Amalia”, owned in 1990. In spite from that, in society with Adolfo Basso, Hugo’s brother, and his daughters Federica, Alejandra and Claudia, planted a vineyard of 200 hectares called Los Montes Negros.