La Viña del Señor

The winery

La Viña del Señor is the project of the Moure family in San Manuel, in the municipality of Melipilla, in the Maipo Valley. The story goes back a long way: as the family itself tells it, its ancestors had been making wine since around 1704 near Chantada, in Galicia's Ribeira Sacra, and Cándido Moure Rodríguez arrived in Chile in 1933 with his father. The winery places the beginning of it all in the first trip his son, Juan Luis Moure, made to Galicia in 1982. The first vines were planted in 2012 on the Santa María de Villaquinte plot, and the first harvest was in 2015.

The vineyard covers 3 ha, with more than 7,000 vines, and shares the land with other organic crops: 460 almond trees, 1,800 stone pines and 80 plum trees. The estate works without pesticides, harvests everything by hand and holds organic certification from Ecocert. Its wines center on Spanish grapes: Tempranillo in Arminda, Gran Tempranillo del Señor, the rosé Camino de Santiago and the sparkling rosé Borboreta; Garnacha in Laureles; Monastrell in Miura; and Albariño in the white Alborada, from still-young vines. Two less usual wines round out the line: Tata Cándido, a sherry-style fino made from Monastrell, and Ámbar, a tawny-style fortified wine made from Garnacha and Monastrell in a collaborative project with Viñateros de Raíz. Winemaking is in the hands of a Chilean winemaker, a woman the website does not name.

Visits require a booking and are led by the family itself. The official website lists three tours for Saturdays and Sundays: Degustación, with a walk through the vineyards, the cellar and three wines; and Tabla de Quesos and Tapas Españolas, which add a ride in a 1915 French Brick carriage and home cooking. Enoturismo Chile adds a Tour Almuerzo (lunch tour) for groups of eight or more and lists other times, so confirm everything by WhatsApp when booking. If you can't make it, the wines are in the winery's online store, with its own delivery in the Metropolitan Region and by Chilexpress to the regions, and since August 2026 in some 30 Unimarc supermarkets, with Gran Tempranillo del Señor, Laureles and Miura.