Viña Correa Albano

The winery

Viña Correa Albano is a family company in Santa Rosa, in the municipality of Sagrada Familia, founded in 1991 by Sebastián Astaburuaga Correa. It takes its name from his ancestor José Gregorio Correa Albano, the winegrower who in 1865 brought vines from Bordeaux and Burgundy to the Curicó Valley and who is also linked to the origins of Viña San Pedro, in Molina. That is why the house speaks of five generations of winegrowers and presents itself with the date 1865, even though the current company is considerably more recent. Its website also recalls a first export in 1958.

According to that same site, the winery has some 300 hectares of its own in Sagrada Familia, Itahue and Molina, and three cellars: Santa Rosa, the main one, where about 80% of production takes place; Itahue, for smaller batches and special wines; and San Ignacio, where it all began and which it describes as being for aging only. Its core business is bulk wine: it claims capacity to produce 20 million liters and to sell 10 million a year abroad, shipped by sea in 24,000-liter flexitanks. But it is not only a bulk producer: it bottles a Sauvignon Blanc under its own name, which it has taken to the Ruta del Vino de Curicó tastings at least from the 2015 vintage through the 2024. It publishes no wine catalog; on Instagram it has shown a Sauvignon Blanc vineyard more than 70 years old (2019), as well as Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon in the field.

The winery publishes no visits, tours, hours or direct sales to the public. Its website is aimed at bulk wine buyers and, although it appears among the wineries of the Ruta del Vino de Curicó, its listing there announces no programs either. Its wines have been available to taste at fairs such as the Noche de las Viñas de Vichuquén (Vichuquén Wineries' Night), where it took part in 2023; to find out whether they receive anyone at the cellar or where to buy the Sauvignon Blanc, ask first at recepcion@caw.cl or +56 75 247 1201. From the same family comes Vinos Manu, the project of winemaker Manuela Astaburuaga, with grapes from the family estates and a garage winery in Santa Rosa according to the Ruta del Vino; its wines, which have no published visits, are bought at vinosmanu.cl.