Viñedos Folatre

The winery

Viña Folâtre carries the surname of Hermond Folâtre, a Frenchman who, as the winery tells it, arrived in the late 19th century in the village of Pichamán, in the Maule, with vines from his homeland and the habit of making wine for his own table. His granddaughter, Lorena Folâtre, founded the winery with her husband, businessman Benjamín González, when they bought a winemaking cellar and the vineyards around it in Teno, in the Curicó Valley. The grandfather's memory lives on in the bottles: Pichaman is the name of one of its premium lines.

The cellar is in the Teniente Cruz sector, on the road to La Montaña, amid 16 hectares of organically managed vineyard with Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The winery presents three other estates of its own: Santa Isabel, with Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc; San Alfonso, with Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Merlot; and Los Robles, with Merlot, Carménère, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. The cellar has capacity for 3 million liters spread across small tanks, an aging room for 800 barrels and its own bottling line. Its traditional-method sparkling wines were developed with the advice of Georges Blanck, former winemaking director of Moët & Chandon. Alongside them it makes the La Llavería and Folâtre lines, the premium Pichaman and Jackie O, and Don, the icon wine launched in 2022.

The winery publishes no tours or tastings, and no current source confirms that the cellar receives visitors, so ask before going. In 2023 it had a wine shop on Ruta 5 Sur, at kilometer 180, next to the Hostería La Fama, but we do not know whether it is still open. Its website and online store no longer work: the last known way to buy is WhatsApp +56 9 6209 3469, with six-bottle packs announced on Instagram (@vinosfolatre), where it last posted in December 2025. In Curicó, in 2025 it announced its wines on the menu of the Arrayán restaurant, in the Mall Curicó.