Caviahue Wines

The winery

Caviahue Wines is a garden vineyard in the Carampangue area of Talagante, in the Maipo Valley, and it is also the home of its owners, Guy Hooper and María José Herreros. In the fall of 2007 they planted 626 vines in the garden in front of the house, a white building with a tile roof, and they tend them together with their four children. The idea, from the start, was to share wine and cooking with friends and family. They themselves write that they are surely the smallest winery in the country. They take part in MaipOrigen, the community of nine family wineries of the Maipo created in 2020, which organizes wine fairs at the Munich restaurant in Malloco.

They make two wines, Hoops and Vecino, in very limited quantities and by hand. The 2025 harvest, bottled in July 2026, yielded 513 bottles and 36 magnums of Hoops and 584 bottles of Vecino; the magnums are numbered. The Hoops label shows the family as a cartoon, with a red Vespa and the household dogs, and carries the words “vino de jardín” (garden wine). The winery does not publish the grape blend of its wines online and has no web store: the wine is ordered directly from the family, via Instagram or by phone, and can also be bought at the fairs it attends. At its stand at the MaipOrigen fair in June 2026, the sign read CLP 30,000 a bottle.

According to Enoturismo Chile, the family receives visitors with 72 hours' notice: every weekend of the year, except public holidays, and from September to March also Monday to Friday after 18:30. It lists tours of the vineyard and cellar, with or without a tasting, in Spanish and English, and lunches for groups, with no program or prices published, so it's best to settle the details with Guy Hooper (+56 9 7135 5934, chilehoops@gmail.com). Instagram shows that the house is still welcoming people: in August 2026 they described a visit with a tasting and lunch spread across the cellar, the garden and the kitchen, and on September 5 they celebrated Día del Vino (Wine Day) with an open house, at CLP 7,000 per person.