Viña Casa Vásquez

The winery

Viña Casa Vásquez is a family business in Melozal, in the municipality of San Javier, in the dry-farmed country (secano) of the Loncomilla Valley. Its labels say Santiago Vásquez founded it in 1896 and speak of three generations, while the municipal listing on San Javier Creativo places its origin in the early 1900s. The municipality counts it among its heritage wineries and mentions vineyards more than a century old; the estate is a member of the Ruta del Vino del Valle del Maule (the Maule Valley Wine Route).

The municipal listing highlights País and Torontel as its heritage grapes. The range the winery showed in October 2026 has Elsa, a País wine; three Gran Reserva wines of Carménère, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot; a Reserva Sauvignon Blanc and two Late Harvest wines, one of them the Macarena rosé. The 2026 harvest ended in late April. In June of that year one of its wines took third place in the public vote at the Entre Gamelas & Mostos fair, in Talca. No online store is published: the wines are bought at the winery and at the fairs it attends during the year.

The published offer is in the municipal listing, last updated in April 2025, so confirm prices by WhatsApp before you go. It includes a 90-minute guided tour of the old cellar, the manor house and the vineyards, with a tasting of three wines and a pairing board, at CLP 16,000, and wines for sale from CLP 5,000. For groups of four or more there is a country lunch with a wine buffet at an agreed price, and the manor house takes up to six guests from CLP 35,000 per person, with breakfast, pool and a horseback ride. Google lists it as open every day from 9:00 to 20:00. Reviews from October 2026 praise a tasting led by the owner and harshly criticize a corporate lunch for a large group.