Viña Don Lázaro

The winery

Viña Don Lázaro is a family project in Cerro Negro, in the municipality of Quillón, on the edge of route N-860, which crosses this inland part of the Itata Valley. Its name remembers Don Lázaro, the family patriarch and a longtime farmer in the area, and his descendants founded it to keep growing vines and making wine on a small scale. Neither the founding year nor the vineyard's size is published.

The family works dry-farmed vines, mainly País, Moscatel and Cinsault. According to the Guía de Vinos del Valle del Itata, these include 3,000 País plants more than 180 years old; the listing for its accommodation speaks instead of a vineyard more than 100 years old. The labels it presents include a Tinto País 2023, a Tinto Selección País 2024, a Malbec, a sweet red, a sweet pipeño (the rustic young country wine of southern Chile) and two late harvests, of Moscatel de Alejandría and of País. The Guía Itata 2025 gave 93 points to the Malbec 2023 and 91 to the País 2023, which also won a gold medal at the third Concurso de Vinos de Quillón, in November 2023.

You can sleep among the vines, in cabins built inside old wine vats, with a wooden hot tub rented separately. The family inn serves lunches and clay-oven empanadas, and the owners sell the winery's wines on site. The valley guide mentions guided visits and the cabin listing speaks of tastings, but there is no published program or price list, so arrange things first by phone with Luis Suárez, at +56 9 9047 9343. No online sales were found: as far as is known, the bottles are bought at the winery itself.