• 87 Points - Leyda Classic Sauvignon Blanc 2006. Many observers feel that Sauvignon Blanc is Chile’s strongest suit, and this version is pugent on the nose and 100% varietally correct. It smells and tastes of cool-climate terroir (San Antonio sits right next to the Pacific Ocean), and if you enjoy simple but likeable citrus, melon, snap pea and bell pepper characteristics, this has it.
  Wine Enthusiast Buying Guide, November 2007
  
  
• 87 Puntos - Best Buy. Leyda Classic Chardonnay 2006
  Desde lo más cercano a la costa del Pacífico de Chile, podra descubrir de este fresco Chardonnay con aromas de pera y de colores a flores silvestres.
  En boca está llena de sabores como la naranja, limón y mango. Aquel sabor es conservado hasta el final, que no esta muy lejano del sabor del Riesling seco.
  Wine Enthusiast Buying Guide, November 2007
  
  
• In an article looking at wines that respond well to being served cool, Jancis Robinson notes a number of reds made from the Burgundy Pinot Noir are emerging from cooler parts of South America such as Chile’s Pacific-cooled 2005 Leyda from Secano Estate (£6,99, Marks & Spencer), which is described: “Fresh crisp fruit – good pure flavours with quite a bit of acid.”... Financial Times (Weekend), June 2006
  
  
• Rose Murray Brown suggests some wines that will go with a picnic as the weather improves. One of her under £10 recommendations is a Chilean White, Garuma Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2005, Viña Leyda, £7.49 at Oddbins. “Grown in cooling see breezes, this Chilean white has a sleek minerality and a honeyed core.” She rates the wine with a 16 out of 20. Scotsman Magazine, May 2006
  
  
• Kattie Rosser recommends a number of Chilean wines to accompany salad dishes. The Viña Leyda ‘Garuma Vineyard’ Sauvignon Blanc 2004, which is available at Oddbins, priced £7.99 a bottle, is described as: “Scented with green pepper and citrus fruit and is sophisticated and long-lasting on the palate”... Glasgow Sunday Herald, August 2006
  
  
• "…with the help of some outstanding recommendations from colleagues and pure luck I found a couple of producers whose entire range reflected everything that is good about Chile and its wines.
  Vina Leyda was the first and I hardly know what to write here as I tried their 8 wines and thought they were all superb. The winemaker Rafael Urrejola  knows what he is doing and is ambitious for his wines finding a consistent path between the Old and New world styles. I'll spend some time tomorrow on the other domaine I particularly like as well as one I don't"... The Annual Chile Gathering, September 2006, by Ashika Mathews
  
  
• “Perhaps the biggest buzz in Chile at the moment is about the Leyda Valley, recently awarded appellation status”... Decanter Magazine, October 2003
  
  
• “Chile is making increasing quantities of a wine style that barely exists anywhere else in the world - affordable and appetising Pinot Noir - and not just from the relatively cool Casablanca Valley. Wines from Leyda, San Antonio, Chimbarongo and Rancagua also showed promise”... Jancis Robinson, February 2004

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