Another Ecuadorian product that will arrive abroad. These are wines from Winery of two hemispheres, those born from General Villamil Playas, about 40 minutes from Guayaquil.

Robert Wright, who is the president of the company, announced that the first shipment is already in negotiations between this month and next month for England, a new destination for Bodega Dos Hemisferios.

The wines that will go to that European country are Armonía Rosé, Travesía Sauvignon Blanc, Travesía Malbec, Travesía Cabernet Sauvignon, Enigma and Paradoja. There will be two palettes.

Ecuador’s award-winning Dos Hemisferios wines are produced in Playas and exported to five countries

“It’s not the first time we’ve shipped to Europe, we’ve already exported to Spain, Switzerland, Germany, and now we’d like to go to England,” says Wright, adding that we also ship to Panama and the USA, specifically to Chicago and New York.

Although they will have this new advancement, the past year has not been so good for the company, the weather has not been kind to them. “In 2023. was a complex year for us, especially due to the influence of rain. This year we expect a growth of 40%. We see that although there are important economic issues in the country, we have good prospects for improving our participation in the various channels and products that we currently sell,” comments the CEO.

Rain caused the closure from April to September approximately: “we had to repair the vineyard due to the amount of rain.”

Bodega Dos Hemisferios started as an idea in 1999 when Quito-born Guillermo Wright, Roberto’s father, wanted to venture into that market.

He observed experimental farms in Playas, province of Guayas. There he saw the cultivation of table grapes and was attracted to this practice.

He bought 360 hectares near the place and harvested 3 with table grapes, which worked. He wanted to go further and thought it was possible to grow wine grapes.

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For this, in 2004, she imported three plants from Brazil and Argentina: Malbec, Cabernet for white wine and Chardonnay for red.

In 2006, when together with the Argentinian winemaker Abel Furlán, they made their first wine: Paradoja.

A year later, Bruma was born, which symbolizes the dawn fog that covers the vineyard day after day. And in 2008. Puzzle, in reference to to the unknown about how the grapes planted for this wine will turn out. This was the first white wine.

These are the twelve strains that have:

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Previously, their winemaking process was in plastic containers; They now pass through stainless steel fermentation tanks and then into French and American copper barrels. There are wines with a short aging time and those with six, twelve, eighteen and up to 38 months of aging..