Miguel Torres Chile

The winery

The Spanish Torres family came to the Curicó Valley in 1979 and bought Fundo Maquehua, 95 hectares of stony soil, where the production plant and the aging cellars still stand. They brought techniques that were uncommon in the Chile of the day: stainless steel vats, temperature-controlled fermentation and aging in French oak barrels. Today the winery remains in family hands, exports to more than a hundred countries and, since April 2026, is part of the B Corp certification that Familia Torres obtained for all its wineries.

Work in the vineyards rests on organic and regenerative agriculture: the winery states that it uses no herbicides or synthetic chemicals and, in winter, lets sheep graze between the rows to control weeds and feed the soil. A 2019 press release spoke of some 400 hectares of its own spread across eight estates in the Maule, Biobío and Ñuble. Its best-known wine is Manso de Velasco, a Cabernet Sauvignon created in 1985 from a vineyard planted in 1902 in Molina. Escaleras de Empedrado is a Pinot Noir from slate soils on the Maule coast, and the Cordillera line was born in 1996 with a Carignan from the Maule's dry-farmed interior: the house is a member of VIGNO, the association for old-vine Carignan. It has also revived the País grape in the traditional-method sparkling rosé Estelado and in La Causa and Millapoa. Las Mulas and Ándica are its organic lines, and the pisco El Gobernador is also its own.

The Visitor Center and Wine Shop stand beside Ruta 5, at kilometer 195, a few kilometers south of Curicó. They open Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 17:30, and Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10:00 to 16:00. Eight experiences can be booked online: the Classic, Cordillera and Espumoso winery tours, a bike ride through Fundo Maquehua, a picnic overlooking the vineyard, and wine tastings with cheeses, with chocolates, or of sparkling wine with caviar. Some require booking three days ahead. On the same site is the restaurant La Bodeguita, which serves tapas and dishes paired with the house wines. Those who cannot travel will find the wines in the winery's official store on Mercado Libre.