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Viña Maquis

The Hurtado family's winery since 1916, between the Tinguiririca River and the Chimbarongo stream in Palmilla; estate-grown Cabernet Franc and Carménère, icon-wine tastings, bike rides, picnics and kayaking.

Verified on October 30, 2026Family winery
Casona de un piso con corredor de pilares blancos y techo de tejas, junto a tres palmeras altas y macizos de hortensias rosadas, al atardecer
Photo: Viña Maquis

Experiences (8)

Experience names and descriptions are the ones published by the winery, in Spanish.

Jardín de la viña con dos árboles frondosos, matorrales, gramíneas y grandes piedras junto a una baranda de madera, bajo un cielo de nubes aborregadas
Tour and tasting

Tour Lien

Recorrido guiado por el corredor biológico diseñado por el paisajista belga Frank Adriaenssens y degustación vertical de Maquis Lien en…

from CLP 52,0001 h 30 minevery dayEnglish
Sendero de tierra con una baranda de troncos entre arbustos, gramíneas y salvias en flor, con árboles y cerros al fondo bajo un cielo despejado
Premium tasting

Tour Ícono

Empieza con una copa de Maquis Revela Rosé, sigue con una caminata por el corredor biológico y las hileras de Viola hasta una vista del…

from CLP 68,0001 h 30 minevery dayEnglish
Manos de dos personas, sin rostros a la vista, ante una mesa de madera con copas de vino tinto, una tabla de pizarra con jamón serrano y un queso de corteza blanca, y floreros negros
Premium tasting

Tour Cosechas Históricas

Experiencia privada guiada por el equipo de la viña: degustación vertical de cuatro añadas de un vino ícono a elección, servida en copas…

from CLP 680,0001 hevery dayEnglish
Sendero de maicillo entre gramíneas altas y arbustos verdes junto a un curso de agua, con un cerro y cielo azul con nubes al fondo
Premium tasting

Tour Privado

Visita exclusiva para el grupo, con guía, por el viñedo y degustación de cuatro vinos: Maquis Revela Rosé, Maquis Viola (Carménère…

from CLP 88,0001 h 30 minevery dayEnglish
Vista aérea de hileras de viñedo en verano junto a un camino de tierra y una franja de árboles a la orilla de un río, con cerros en el horizonte
Bike ride

Ride the Vines + Tour Lien

Paseo en bicicleta por el corredor biológico y el viñedo hasta la ribera del estero Chimbarongo, seguido del Tour Lien con degustación…

from CLP 102,0003 hevery dayEnglish
Vista aérea de un río ancho que se abre entre islas arboladas, con campos de cultivo y álamos otoñales a ambos lados y cerros al fondo
Bike ride

Ride the Vines + Tour Ícono

Paseo en bicicleta por el corredor biológico y el viñedo hasta la ribera del estero Chimbarongo, seguido del Tour Ícono: copa de Maquis…

from CLP 118,0003 hevery dayEnglish
Mano que sostiene una copa de vino tinto sobre una mesa de picnic con potes de cartón con frutos rojos, tostadas, un sándwich, una copa de rosado y una botella de agua
Picnic

Picnic Maquis

Picnic al aire libre con vista a uno de los ríos de la viña, preparado por una panadería artesanal del valle: sándwich en ciabatta de…

1 h 30 minevery dayEnglish
Vista desde un kayak en el estero al atardecer: el sol se refleja en el agua entre orillas arboladas y en primer plano asoman la proa del kayak, una rodilla y pies con sandalias
Experience

Experiencia Entre Ríos

Descenso guiado en kayak por el estero Chimbarongo, operado por la agencia Go Up Turismo Aventura (dos guías, kayak, remo y chaleco…

CLP 105,900 to CLP 125,9003 hevery dayEnglish

At a glance

Rating4.8 / 5 on Google
Wines in the shopfrom CLP 14,990
Founded1916
Vineyard100 ha
Flagship grapes
Cabernet FrancCarménère
Styles and certifications
Sparkling wine
Awards
  • Robert Parker Wine Advocate 2025: Maquis Viola 2021, 96+ pts
  • Robert Parker Wine Advocate 2025: Maquis Franco 2021, 96 pts
  • The Drinks Business Masters 2023: Maquis Viola 2015, medalla de oro
  • Descorchados 2021: Maquis Viola 2017, 95 pts
  • Descorchados 2021: Maquis Franco 2017, 94 pts
  • Descorchados 2021: Maquis Lien 2017, 94 pts

The winery

Viña Maquis is in Palmilla, in the heart of the Colchagua Valley, on an estate where wine has been made since the 18th century, when these lands belonged to the Society of Jesus. In the 19th century it was owned by two presidents of Chile, Federico Errázuriz Zañartu and Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, and in 1916 it was bought by the Hurtado family, who keep it to this day. In 1926-1927 the engineer Ignacio Hurtado, then 23 years old, built the first winemaking and aging cellar, still in use, and in 2002 the family added a new winery. Today the winery is headed by Ricardo Rivadeneira Hurtado, chief executive of Maquis and of Viñedos Calcu, the family's other house, with vineyards in Marchigüe.

The vineyard, more than 100 hectares, stretches between the Tinguiririca River and the Estero Chimbarongo creek, two watercourses that bring cool breezes: they protect the vines from spring frosts and lower the temperature in summer. The soils are alluvial, clay over gravel, and everything is drip-irrigated. The family has replanted with massal selections of Cabernet Franc, Carménère, Syrah, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec, and the wines are made only from estate grapes. The first high-end wine was Lien, a blend from the 2003 vintage based on Cabernet Franc and Carménère; then came Franco, which the winery presents as Chile's first icon Cabernet Franc, and Viola, which joins a Carménère block planted in 1997 with a Cabernet Franc from the 1930s. The Revela line rounds out the offer. The icons are blended with advice from the Bordeaux consultant Eric Boissenot and mature for 12 to 36 months in French oak barrels. Maquis was among the first wineries certified under the Wines of Chile Sustainability Code: it preserves biological corridors, uses sheep to control weeds and heats and cools the winery with a geothermal heat pump.

Visits are booked online at turismo.maquis.cl. The Tour Lien and the Tour Ícono walk the biological corridor designed by the Belgian landscape architect Frank Adriaenssens and end in the Casona (the manor house) with a tasting: three vintages of Lien on the first; Viola and Franco, with an older vintage of each, on the second, which also takes a look at the Chimbarongo creek. There is also a private tour with icons from Maquis and Calcu, a vertical tasting of four vintages for groups of up to eight people, bike rides through the vineyard combined with the tours, a picnic with produce from the valley and a kayak descent of the creek, guided by an adventure tourism agency, that ends with a picnic at the winery. Tastings are for over-18s and the experiences for ages 12 and up; pets are not admitted. There is no restaurant or accommodation.

Gallery

Photos: Viña Maquis.

Casona de un piso con corredor de pilares blancos y techo de tejas, junto a tres palmeras altas y macizos de hortensias rosadas, al atardecer
Casona de un piso con corredor de pilares blancos y techo de tejas, junto a tres palmeras altas y macizos de hortensias rosadas, al atardecer · Photo: Viña Maquis

Getting there

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Verification

Profile verified on October 30, 2026 by The Wine Travel Guide team against official sources.

Winery registered with the SAG (Chile's agricultural service) as a wine producer (official list, November 2026).

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