Viña Hugo Casanova

The winery

Viña Hugo Casanova is the Casanova family's winery at Fundo Viña Purísima, beside Camino Las Rastras, some 11 km east of downtown Talca, in the Claro Valley area. According to the history its website used to tell, now offline, the first Casanovas arrived from northern Italy at the end of the 19th century and Eliseo bought the Batuco and Valle Hermoso estates in Itata; its recent labels carry a seal with the year 1898. His son Aldo bought the Maule estate in 1939, planted French varieties and built the cellar. Hugo Eliseo followed him, and from the year 2000 Hugo Andrés as well, with whom the house opened markets in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

The website gave the estate 100 hectares of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carménère, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc, a cellar with a capacity of two million liters and a production of close to 1.3 million liters a year: these figures are more than a decade old and may have changed. The range it showed in 2024 included the Antaño, Reserva and Family Reserve lines and Don Aldo, a limited-production blend of three varieties, with up to 15 months in barrel, dedicated to the founder. Not all the grapes seem to come from the estate: its Reserva Sauvignon Blanc 2012 came from the Leyda Valley and James Suckling places Don Aldo in Colchagua. Among its awards, the Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 took the Grand Gold Medal at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles in 2015.

The winery publishes no visits, tastings or shop, and when preparing this listing we did not find its wines in the Chilean stores we checked. Google records the place as a factory, with hours of Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 18:30 and Saturdays from 8:00 to 12:30, which does not guarantee service to the public. To find out whether it sells directly or where to buy its wines, the best option is to call +56 71 226 6540 or write to comercial@hugocasanova.cl before heading over.