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Invina. Wine makers. Moule, Chile. 900 acress... half production sold to other wine makers. Half bottled under own brand.
Richard Huber spent over 40 years in the financial services industry in USA, Latin America and Asia, holding senior positions with Bank of Boston, Citibank, Chase and Continental Bank, ending in Feb 2000 when he left the large insurance company, Aetna after several years as its Chairman, President & CEO.
Huber received an AB degree in Chemistry from Harvard, and served as an officer in the US Coast Guard. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and at some point could read about 1,000 Japanese kanji characters.
In 1957, Richard Huber took a year off from his chemistry studies at Harvard to study at the Instituto de la Graza in Seville, Spain. Here he grew to love the easy-going style of socializing over tapas and wine. Wine that often cost less than water.
Later in life, in the financial world, he became perplexed by the inconceivable prices he saw colleagues pay for wines that, in his opinion, did not have a better value proposition than the wines he enjoyed in Spain.
That laid the seeds for his vision about wine:
The quality of wine should be judged independent of its provenance and its abundance or scarcity.
Quality and Price should move in logical steps.