Viña De Aguirre

The winery

Viña De Aguirre is the project of the seven De Aguirre Etcheberry siblings in Villa Alegre, a municipality in the Loncomilla Valley, within the Maule Valley. The family story starts in 1955, when their grandfather, French farmer Pedro Etcheberry, started a first vineyard in Chimbarongo, in Colchagua. In 1973 their parents, Pedro Félix de Aguirre and Ana María Etcheberry, bought Fundo Santa Ana de Liucura; in 1997 construction of the current winery and planting of the first vines began, and in 2001 came the first harvest. The first bottled wine was exported in 2005.

The vineyard is flat, on soils of sand and volcanic ash, at about 98 m above sea level and 285 km south of Santiago. The estate has 520 hectares planted around the winery and adds another 640 through grape contracts in the area. It is a large-scale operation: 14 million liters of stainless-steel storage, three bottling lines and close to 22 million bottles a year, sold in more than 45 markets. The catalog runs from varietal wines to age-worthy reds, with brands such as Sol de Chile, Alma de Chile, Santa Loreto, 7 Hermanos and Annie, and with Cabernet Sauvignon, Carménère and Syrah among its most common grapes. At the top is Pater Familiae, whose icon wine was launched in 2016 in tribute to Pedro Félix de Aguirre; some of its reds, such as Filius 2022, are presented as Colchagua Valley wines. The winery holds certification under the National Sustainability Code, valid until August 2028.

Neither its website nor its listing on the Ruta del Vino del Valle del Maule (the Maule Valley Wine Route), of which it is a member, publishes visits, hours or a wine shop, so before going you need to ask at somos@deaguirre.cl or +56 2 2244 8300. There is no online store on its website either: its commercial focus is on importers, distributors and retail. In Chile, the Sol de Chile brand is sold at Lider, including online.