Viña La Torina

The winery

Viña La Torina is in the locality of the same name, in the municipality of Pichidegua, at the foot of the hills of the Cachapoal Valley. Its story begins in 1992, when Gonzalo Sánchez Rivas bought the vineyard and folded it into the Fundo Santa Carmen de La Torina; with the advice of winemaker Ricardo Vial Cox he brought it to full production. In 2000 he decided to make his own wine from those grapes and built a winery to handle vinification and aging on site, and in 2001 the first wines came out under the winery's name, a tribute to the family that originally owned these lands, descendants of Mateo de Toro y Zambrano.

The vineyard has 6.5 hectares, 3.5 of Carménère and 3 of Cabernet Sauvignon, and the house defines itself as boutique and limited-production, working at a human scale from vine to bottle. Its online store offers four wines: Pedro Urdemales, a Cabernet Sauvignon from the Reserva Especial line; an Ensamblaje of Carménère and Cabernet Sauvignon in equal parts, and two limited-edition Gran Reservas, a Carménère and a Cabernet Franc. The Gran Reserva Carménère and the Ensamblaje age 12 months in barrel. In October 2026 the winery presented a new label, the sweet Late Harvest 2022. The Catad'Or competition has awarded gold medals to several of its labels between 2022 and 2025. The online store sells two-bottle gift boxes, from CLP 16,000 a box.

Guided visits leave on Saturdays at 10:00 and are booked by WhatsApp. The Tour Pedro Urdemales (CLP 20,000 per person) covers the Carménère vineyard and the winery, explains the winemaking, shows the wines at different stages of aging and ends with a glass in the wine shop. The Tour Gran Reserve Carmenere (CLP 40,000) starts with a coffee, follows a similar route with a tasting and ends with a home-style lunch in the café. The website also offers a guided tasting, with no price or schedule published, booked through the same WhatsApp. The wine shop opens Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 19:00 and Sundays from 12:00 to 19:00, and the Cafetería La Torina operates beside it. You can pay by card or bank transfer. In 2026 the winery also staged live-music nights with tributes to Freddie Mercury and Olivia Newton-John, announced on its Instagram.