Viña Dalbosco

The winery

Viña Dalbosco was born in 2008 at Fundo Las Lluvias, on the outskirts of Punitaqui, when the brothers Giorgio, Roberto, Renato and Franco Dalbosco Cazzanelli decided to make wine from the grapes the family had been growing on the property. Their father, Renato Dalbosco Roncalli, had arrived in Chile in 1952 from the province of Trento, in northern Italy, and the winery presents itself as the continuation of that wine culture brought over from the Alps: its labels speak of wines with an Italian soul. It is a small project, with a team of about ten people, estate grapes picked by hand and a limited production aimed mainly at export.

The estate is at kilometer 20 of Ruta D-605, among the dry hills of the Limarí interior, in an area the winery calls Entrecordilleras: far from the coast and from the Andes, with bright days and cool nights. The vines were planted from 1999, mainly Syrah, Carménère, Cabernet Sauvignon and Viognier, later joined by Merlot, Cabernet Franc and, more recently, Malbec. The list is organized in three lines: the varietals, with a rosé and the red Altos de Punitaqui; the Reserva wines, with Carménère, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Viognier and a blend of Syrah, Carménère and Cabernet Sauvignon; and the Gran Reserva Syrah-Carménère, which spends a year in French oak barrels. The 2013 Gran Reserva wore a gold medal from Catad'Or 2016, and sommelier Andreas Larsson gave 90 points to the 2015 Gran Reserva and 89 to the 2016 Ensamblaje; James Suckling tasted the 2021 vintages of the Viognier Reserva Especial and the Gran Reserva blend.

Visits are by appointment. Enoturismo Chile describes it as a tour of the winery and vineyards with a tasting, Monday to Friday, in Spanish or English and for groups of up to ten, booked at least a day in advance; the estate also has a wine shop which, according to Google Maps and the Ovalle press, opens during office hours on weekdays and on Saturday mornings, and where you mostly taste the Syrah and Carménère from the Gran Reserva line. There is no restaurant or accommodation, and the winery's website has been offline since late 2026, so the practical thing is to call or write before you go. Outside Punitaqui, the wines have been sold at Mundo del Vino and at the Falabella, Jumbo, Unimarc, Paris and Ripley chains.