Casa Bauzá

The winery

Casa Bauzá is the wine project of the Bauzá family, known in Chile for the pisco it makes in the Limarí Valley. It all began with Lorenzo Bauzá Juan, who arrived from Mallorca in the early 20th century and worked in fruit before the family moved fully into distilling. In 1998 the family began planting vines in Til Til, at the far northern end of the Maipo Valley, and for its first years sold the grapes to other houses. The first wine of its own, a red blend, came from the 2011 harvest. Today the winery is headed by Rodrigo Bauzá, and the wines are in the hands of winemaker Natalia Poblete, who arrived in 2014 and has pushed toward a fresher Carménère with less oak, a shift that Decanter magazine highlighted in September 2026.

The vineyard sits beside Ruta 5 Norte, at kilometer 44.5, and the winery puts it at about 650 m above sea level. It was planted in three stages (1998, 2002 and 2006), covers 58.8 ha of Carménère, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot on trellises with drip irrigation, and grows on deep colluvial soils of clay and angular stone. Days are hot, nights cold and the sunlight intense, so the canopy is managed to protect the fruit. The house describes this vineyard as organic from the start, though it publishes no current certificate. Its signature is Carménère: Presumido, born with the 2014 harvest; Isabel, its icon wine; and Alboroto, which blends three vintages. Atrevido is the house blend. With grapes from outside Til Til it makes Valiente, a Cabernet Sauvignon from Maipo Alto; Veraz, a Cabernet Franc that started out in Alto Jahuel and in recent vintages comes from Colchagua; and Gala, a traditional-method sparkling wine made with Limarí grapes, whose expedition liqueur (dosage) contains pisco.

Neither its website, its store nor its Instagram account offers tours or tastings at the vineyard, and it is not listed on Enoturismo Chile either, so this profile lists no experiences: if you want to see the place, ask first by phone or email. The sales office is at Av. El Golf 99, in Las Condes, about 43 km from the vineyard as the crow flies. The direct way to try the wines is bauzastore.cl, the company's store, which also sells the family's piscos and delivers in Santiago; Presumido can also be found in supermarkets such as Jumbo. Casa Bauzá is a member of MOVI, the Movimiento de Viñateros Independientes (Independent Winemakers Movement).