Viña La Rosa

The winery

Viña La Rosa is in Peumo, in the Cachapoal Valley, where the Ossa family has made wine for two centuries. According to the winery itself, it all began in 1824, when Francisco Ossa y Mercado, a mining entrepreneur from northern Chile, bought from Manuel Blanco Encalada, the country's first president, an estate with vineyards beside the Cachapoal River. His descendants built a school, a health post and a theater for the local people, and the winery presents itself today as a business of six generations of the same family, commemorating its 200 years of history in Peumo.

It works only with its own grapes: more than 600 hectares in three areas around Peumo, among the hills of the Coastal Range. At La Rosa the soils run from the sands by the river to the deep colluvial soils of the slopes, terrain the house associates above all with Carménère. Cornellana is an isolated, rocky valley of volcanic origin, home to the Cornellana Volcano Sedimentario line, with Carménère, Cabernet Franc and Syrah. La Palmería de Cocalán holds more than 100 hectares of vineyard and a private nature reserve of more than 20,000 Chilean palms; the tallest, which they call La Capitana, gives its name to one of the lines. Completing the offer are Ossa, the icon wine, which blends Carménère, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Syrah; Don Reca, a tribute to Recaredo Ossa Undurraga; La Rosa, which includes a traditional-method sparkling wine with 60 months on the lees, and La Palma, as well as its sparkling-wine lines. Everything is bottled at the century-old winery in Peumo, with Gonzalo Cárcamo as head winemaker and Cynthia Ortiz as winemaker; The Drinks Business included it in its Master Winemaker 100 list for 2026. The winery also declares Ecocert organic certification since 2013, and its brochure speaks of traditional and organic vineyards at La Palmería.

The winery publishes no regular visitor program or booking channel. What is open every day is the estate's wine shop, on Ruta H-66, km 37, about 10 km northwest of the town of Peumo: Monday to Wednesday 9:00 to 14:00 and 15:00 to 19:00, Thursday to Saturday 9:00 to 19:00 and Sundays 10:00 to 14:00 and 15:00 to 18:00. It has another shop in San Vicente de Tagua Tagua (Diego Portales 081, unit 5), about 20 km away as the crow flies, and the La Rosa Sofruco online store, where the wines are sold mostly by the case of six. The heritage manor house and its grounds have opened on specific dates: in July 2026 the winery was one of the hosts of the Encuentro de Enoturismo Valle de Cachapoal, for media and other wineries, and on September 12 and 13 it held a special Fiestas Patrias (national holidays) sale with guided tours, prior registration and limited places. No new dates have been announced; to ask about visits, the published contact is the call center 800 550 555 and the email ventas@sofruco.cl.