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Vineyards of the Maule Valley and the Rio Mataquito Valley

Wine route for Curico, Maule. region

This wide valley that runs parallel to the Andes mountain range and the coast has the largest area of vineyards in Chile. There is a long wine growing tradition that goes back to the times of the Spanish colonization, vineyards planted with ‘cepa país’ (country stocks grape), a red variety that was brought here by the Spaniards in the 16th century.
Carmenere is its emblematic grape, rediscovered in Chile after it was destroyed worldwide by Grape phylloxera. In November 1994, a specialist of the Jean Micheal Boursiquot vineyard, declared that a large part of these vineyards had not been cultivating Merlot but Carmenere or Grande Vidure!

The Rio Mataquito is formed from Rio Teno and Rio Lontue and flows to the sea.These rivers form a huge water resource for the Curico wine area and the many vineyards stretching down to the coastal areas.

Viñedos Puertas
650 hectares of wonderful vines and a winery for 22 million liters! The Corona De Aragon, Cabernet Sauvingon Reserva is a favorite of mine . Based in Curico,a fine example of local winemaking skills.
http://www.vinedospuertas.cl/

Raices

One of the closer vineyards to the farm, and is a typical family vineyard , beautifully set out and set up for wine tasting. During the peak holiday months this winery is open all day so you can just call in and try the wines.

Vina Las Pitras

Rauco 

Chile Valles

We stumbled acroos this small Curico Wine Society by accident, and we found some great small producer local wines. Altue,Chilla and Iorana are the listed wines in Red's and White's. Looking forward to trying some of these new finds!

Viña Corral Victoria
Chilean traditions have been our focus, therefore sharing and presenting them has been a must for our vineyard. Corral Victory represents the essence of the Chilean farm, where huasos (Chilean cowboys), sports and the breeding of fine, criollo horses are brought together with stables, round pens and rodeo arenas. In order to unify the traditionally old way of the farm with the idea to reunite two traditional products such as horses and wine, the first vineyard plantations were planted in 1998 with the objective to produce a product of excellent representative quality of the earth and sun of the Maule Valley. Corral Victoría vineyards has chosen representative and original wine brands in order to offer our products at the national and international levels, taking the name of Chile and of the “huasos” to all latitudes, fulfilling our hard work of showing what the country can offer.
http://www.corralvictoria.cl

Vinos del Sur
Chilean export wines, vinos dels sur. This wines are made with the best of the best the winery and vineyard has to offer. The best grapes, that come from the best and most selected vineyards. From each and every variety like cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, syrah, merlot, pinot, carmenere, premium, tierra roja, viña Carpe Diem,
http://www.vinosdelsur.cl/

Vina Valdivieso

Dates back to 1879,and was the first company to make Sparkling wine. In the winery, we conserve the qualities of the grapes by intervening as little as possible during the vinification process in order to avoid any loss of concentration or complexity. Our basic rule for barrel-aged wines is that the contribution of the oak should complement and reinforce the characteristics of the fruit and never hide or overwhelm it.

http://www.vinavaldivieso.cl/Ingles/flash_index.htm

Viña Balduzzi
Experienced in the art of wine growing and making since the 17th century, Viña Balduzzi was established as a company in 1989. Its Chairman, Mr. Jorge López Balduzzi, lives on the property and devotes himself full time to this noble activity.
http://www.balduzzi.cl/

Viña El Aromo
Founded in 1992 by a French family firm, this business was later acquired by Victor Henríquez Solar, and is run at the present time by his sons, Arturo and Manuel. El Aromo winery has modern facilities and equipment, enabling it to produce excellent quality wines.
http://www.elaromo.cl/

Viña J.Bouchon
Viñedos J. Bouchon is a family business. Its story begins with the arrival in Chile of E.G. Bouchon in the year 1892, from the French region of Bordeaux. Nowadays, the winery facilities are equipped with the latest technology
http://www.jbouchon.cl/

Viña Gillmore Estate
These vineyards date back to colonial times. The fermentation of the grape juice in large clay caldrons (tinajas) gave rise to the name of the winery: Tabontinaja. Today the up-to-date facilities and sophisticated phytosanitary monitoring equipment vouch for the modern process.
Pioneer in the agroturistic activities, it has an agro-resort that takes the visitors on a mystical journey around wine and the ecology that surrounds the vineyards. The endless number of activities maintains an expectant atmosphere, looking forward to what is coming next.
http://www.gilmore.cl/

Viñedos Terranoble
Viñedos Terranoble S.A. was founded in 1993. Its proprietors, passionate about winemaking, resolved to grow the very finest wines, combining the best of tradition and modernity with the magnificent natural bounties of the area in their winery. The philosophy of the Terranoble winery is to create noble, elegant wines that are pleasant to drink, with fruity aromas that single out, carry through and highlight the particular characteristics of each variety. The fine strains are harvested manually, treated naturally and delicately, in a combination of age-old tradition with the most up-to-date technology.
http://www.terranoble.cl/

Viña Casas Patronales
Viña Casas Patronales, a family tradition. Three old “casonas” (large, traditional houses) are the basis for this vineyards name, located in the San Clemente area near Talca, in the Maule Valley. Its magnificent vineyards grow in a valley that produces the best grapes for the creation of fine wines. Their associates, all men connected with the area, have created this winery in which the best quality grapes of the farm are always destined for Casas Patronales. In Chilean history, Casas Patronales has great importance since they were the main point where not only productive but social, cultural, religious and political events were generated.
http://www.casaspatronales.com/

Viña Valle Frío
Valle Frío vineyard was founded in 1992, by its present owner J. Sebastián Moreno U., who is a direct descendent of a traditional agricultural, fruit and wine-farming family that has been in Chile for over 300 years. Valle Frío vineyard is the vitivinicultural division of the company Agroindustrial Valle Frío, dedicated to the principal agricultural industries of fruit and vine production. The cellars and winery are located on the farm Fundo Los Pocillos (in a privileged zone for producing wine due to its climate and soil types), with offices and cellars being located within the centuries-old house and colonial-times buildings, all of which were modernized with stainless-steel tanks, state of the art winemaking equipment and has a total capacity of 3,200,000 litres.
http://www.vallefriowines.cl/

Viña Casa Donoso
Located 10 minutes from the centre of Talca, Casa Donoso winery produces fine export wines from its own vineyards. With a pretty parkland setting and old colonial house, the fermentation and cask storage cellars are open for visits, fine wine tasting and purchases directly in their sales room.
http://www.casadonoso.com/

Viña Hugo Casanova
The first owners, members of the Casanova family, arrived in Chile from the north of Italy at the end of the 19th century. The intention of these Italian pioneers was to continue the family tradition of producing high quality wines from fine vines.
http://www.hugocasanova.cl/

Viña Calina
In 1993 the company Kendall Jackson hired the services of the renowned American enologist Randy Ullom and, that same year, Jess Jackson conferred upon him the great responsibility of carrying out a new project in Chile, founding in 1994 Viña Calina. Ever since, Viña Calina, has made a point of the hiring the very best professionals, so that it has become one of the most prestigious cellars of fine wines at national and international levels.
http://www.calina.cl/

Viña Botalcura
-"Three men, one passion"
Botalcura winery is the passionate result of three men working together. The fascination that exerts in Juan Fernando Waidele of the enchantment of the lands that he acquired in Botalcura, coincides with the gestation of the idea to give life to a vine. The meeting of Juan Fernando with the French winemaker, Philippe Debrus, agrees with the desire to return to the making of wine in the artisan way, as he learned very young in his native country. Finally, Jochen Döhle from Germany, believes in the challenge that excites Juan Fernando – a longtime friend – and to Philippe, is united to the project of making Botalcura Winery a reality.
http://www.botalcura.cl/

Viña Cremaschi Furlotti
Viña Cremaschi was born at the end of the XIX century in Italy. Years later, the vineyard moved to America, making them the second wine cellar to be established in Argentina. They are now located in San Javier, Maule Valley, where the latest technology combined with family knowledge makes for one of the regions most renowned wineries.
http://www.cremaschifurlotti.cl/

Viña Los Acantos
Los Acantos winery was founded as Bodega El Naranjal in 1895 and has been within the family for over four generations. In the late 1990’s the winery rededicated itself to exporting its wines and thusly changed its name to Viña Los Acantos. The company is focused on producing high quality wines with the incentive of innovation and is always looking to rediscover new and different wine styles to share with the consumer.

Viña Via Wines
Founded in 1998, by Jorge Coderch, VIA has a vision of quality, diversity and services required for today's wine market.. Jorge's extensive knowledge of chilean vineyard landscapes, is applied to each VIA's vineyard's making VIA a leader in this catagory.Cu rico,Maule
http://www.viawines.cl/

Viña Carta Vieja

Seven generations of passionate wine making. To speak of Viña Carta Vieja is to speak of the history and tradition of Chilean wine. The winery dates to the early 19th century when Carlos Adolfo del Pedregal left his home in Asturias (Spain) settled in the heart of the Loncomilla Valley. Here in these generous new lands he embarked upon his mission to become one of the best wine producers of the New World.

http://www.cartavieja.com/

Vina Aresti

Aresti Wine of Chile is a family-owned winery that was founded in 1951, when Vicente Aresti and his father-in-law Alfredo López decided to establish a winery in the Curicó Valley.Convinced that they could make fine wines, the family acquired new land, invested in technology, and in 1999 began to sell their products under the Aresti label.Today, three generations of the Aresti family have dedicated their efforts and knowledge to producing widely recognized wines of the highest quality.

http://www.arestichile.cl/

Vina AltaCima

The AltaCima winery projects a harmonic balance between its architecture and the landscape and integrates the most recent developments in the oenological and ecological worlds. The design allows a gentle handling of the grapes using gravity to preserve the integrity of the skins, which contain most of the characteristics of the future wine. Sagrada Familia

http://www.altacima.cl/

Vina Correa Albano

Sagrada Familia;

http://www.caw.cl/

Vinos Los Robles

60 years ago, it was eight hundred hectares of the best land of Chile’s viticultural soil. Today, it is almost a thousand. Half a century ago, it began exporting fine wines, grown in their own vineyards; nowadays, it maintains - like a long cultivated tradition – its vocation of sharing with the world the quality, the singularity and the taste of what has made Curicó Valley worldly renown: its wine.

http://www.losrobles.cl/

Vinas Miguel Torres

In 1979, our hundred year-old wine-making company acquired a small winery in Curicó, in the Chilean central valley, as the first foreign company to back Chilean vineyard production located in a unique magical landscape, at the feet of the Andes volcanoes. Today, after almost thirty years, those 100 hectares acquired then have turned into 445 hectares of vineyards owned by the company itself. Curico

http://www.migueltorres.cl/wps/portal/tch/home_en

Vinas Millaman

Our winemaking heritage is clearly evident at Hacienda El Condor. The winery’s ancient adobe walls and traditional manor house reflect our centennial roots, and the vineyards date back more than 75 years. Maule Valley

http://www.millaman.cl/home.php

Vina San Pedro

Viña San Pedro’s foundations were forged in 1865, when brothers Bonifacio and José Gregorio Correa Albano – the fifth generation of their family – acquired pieces of land formerly owned by their ancestors. They began to produce their first wines with local grape varieties, and these were later replaced by noble vines from Southern France and Germany. In effect, they gave birth to viticulture in Curicó Valley. Molina

http://www.sanpedro.cl/

Vina Las Pitras

Rauco

Vina Echeverria

Molina 

Vina Ines Escobar

Sagrada Familia 

Vina Pirazzoli

Lontue 

The Hunt for new wineries goes on! 

Vineyards of the Colchagua Valley

This valley has always had a true agricultural calling. It is land blessed to produce red grapes. Warm and naturally dry but with an abundance of water supplied by the Tinguiririca and Colchagua river; it is a narrow agricultural valley that starts at the foot of the Andes and extends in a westerly direction to the Pacific Ocean. In between, you can find numerous microclimates and types of soil, uneven slopes, ideal for plantations and a number of growing vineyards, to make excellent Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Syrah and very good Carmenere and Malbec.

Viña Santa Cruz

There are restaurants and a Wine Museum. Tours are given of the vineyard, wine cellars with wine tasting, and only 40 minutes from the farm.  

www.vinasantacruz.cl

Viu Manent

The wine tour starts at the Vistor Center "La Llavería", a XXth century Estate that faithfully illustrates Chilean epoch architecture. First ,visit the Estate and unveil its history. Then, visit the vineyards on a vintage horse-drawn carriage, next the cellar, wine-making process and wine tasting by the wine vats, return to La Llavería, choices of reserve wine tasting. Visit the wine store and Emporium . Well rated by our guest as it gives a very complete picture of making wine and knowledgeable guides,and of course ,wonderful wines.

http://www.viumanent.cl/ViuM_I/vinotour/tour.php

Viña El Huique

This is a colonial building that dates back to 1870, the old building of the Huique Hacienda. Visitors can tour the wine making area where there is wine tasting straight from the casks. You can also visit the San Jose del Carmen Museum of El Huique. 

www.elhuique.com

Viña Casa Silva

The tour takes in Colchagua’s oldest vineyards, including the wine cellar that dates back to the year 1872. The winery has an exclusive hotel and restaurant. 

Casa Silva 'Cool Coast' Sauvignon Blanc

www.casasilva.cl

Vinedos Emiliana

Viñedos Emiliana S.A was founded in 1986, with the name of Bodegas y Viñedos Santa Emiliana. The main object of our company was produce exceptional wines, being the result of a work performed carefully through an integrated handling of the vineyards. At Viñedos Emiliana S.A . we work each one of the productive process parts as a fundamental fragment of a whole, by a rigorous treatment from the soils up to the final result, a high quality wine.The tour explains organic and bio-dynamic agricultural concepts. In the wine shop, you can taste wines produced from organic grapes. 

www.emiliana.cl

Viña Casa Lapostolle

Casa Lapostolle has been founded by the Marnier Lapostolle family from France and the Rabat family from Chile in 1994, through Alexandra Marnier Lapostolle, her husband Cyril de Bournet and Don José Rabat Gorchs. Today, Casa Lapostolle is 100% owned by the Marnier-Lapostolle group. The Marnier Lapostolle family, founders and owners of the world-renowned liqueur Grand Marnier, are known for producing spirits and liqueurs, but the family has been also involved in winemaking for generations. Originally winegrowers in the Loire Valley, the Marnier Lapostolle continue this vintner tradition today as owners of Chateau de Sancerre.This vineyard produces the award winning and iconic Clos Apalta wine. Tours of Cunaco wine cellar are available with booking. 

www.casalapostolle.com

Viña Estampa

Estampa has more than 300 hectares of vineyard divided among three properties, planted with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carménère and Syrah, which serve as the base for the assemblages. The vineyards also include blocks of Malbec, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Petite Sirah and Viognier to increase the character and complexity of the wines.The wine cellar of this winery is built in the shape of a wave. The tour of the inside of the wine cellar follows a logical route around the production process, finishing with wine tasting. 

www.estampa.com

Viña La Playa

The Cellar, which struture and technology is state of the art, produce a great variety of varietals, reserves and premium wines such as: Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Late Harvest, Cabernet Rosé, Sauvignon Blanc, Carmenère, Syrah y Viognier.This winery has a boutique hotel and included in its program is a class on the making of various wines. Afterwards the visitors can see the production lines. 

www.hotelvinalaplaya.cl

Viña J.F.Lurton

The winery has a modern, French style.  

/www.francoislurton.com/

Viña La Posada

The history of La Posada goes back to 1905 when Jose Diaz arrived from Spain and started aquiring agricultural land in the Colchagua Valley. In the 1960's Eduardo Diaz Escandon decided to dedicate the land to the production of wine and in 1985 La Posada started the production of fine wines. The vineyard consists of 123 acres and is planted with Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Semillon. The winery has the facilities for storage of 1 million liters of wine in stainless steel tanks, cement and wooden vats, and has a cask room for storing fine wines. They export primarily to Ecuador, Brasil, Denmark, Germany and North America.This is a family owned winery, that keeps a traditional concept of wine production which is orientated towards organic production. 

www.vinalaposada.cl

Viña Las Niñas

Eight French women run this innovative project, close to the center of Santa Cruz. 160 Hectares planted . In the wine cellar and cask room you tour the production process, finishing with a tasting of new wines, including “Tacón Alto” 

www.vinalasninas.cl

Viña Montes

The first activities at our vineyard began in 1987. Two partners with great illusions, Aurelio Montes and Douglas Murray, both holding long-standing experience in the wine industry, were certain Chile could improve on the quality it was producing at the time. It seemed as if the large and medium-scale vineyards were satisfied with limiting their distribution to local supermarkets. They certainly knew how to produce premium wines, but didn’t feel up to it, they were satisfied with the niche markets they had attained, which was certainly broad, although small. In 1988, another two original partners joined in, Alfredo Vidaurre and Pedro Grand, each providing their qualified, complimentary views, and thus, Viña Montes was formally born, initially under the name Discover Wine Ltda., a saga that has made Chile internationally known in 75 countries worldwide while providing extensive recognition and acclaim Tour of vineyards, viewing point and tasting. 

www.monteswines.com

Viña Laura Hartwig

The tour takes in the wine cellar and store. Tasting takes place on the second level of the cellar and includes a white and red variety. 

www.laurahartwing.cl

Viña Montgras

"Each of our wines" says Hernán Gras, "is a true reflection of our winemaking abilities, combined with the extraordinary character of the grapes from the Colchagua Valley."Tour of the wine cellars, wine shop.

http://www.montgras.cl/english/home.htm

Viña Bisquertt

One of the main goals of Bisquertt, is for its wines to reflect with integrity the terroir where they come from. For this, day by day a selected group of people supervises a rigorous handling of the vineyards from the planting to the bottling and labeling process of its wines, committed to the superior quality of all its products, supporting in time, the  “Colchagua” Denomination of Origin.   Tour of the wine cellars, wine shop. 

www.bisquertt.cl