Viña Millamán (Hacienda El Cóndor)

The winery

Viña Millaman has its origins in the Hacienda El Cóndor de Peteroa, in the municipality of Sagrada Familia, where Italian immigrant José Canepa began in 1946 the family legacy the winery acknowledges today. The Millaman brand, a Mapuche word the company translates as “golden condor”, was born in 1998, when the family created a new winery out of the hacienda and restored the old adobe walls of its cellar. The estate preserves the 150-year-old colonial house where the family lived, which gives its name to the icon wine Casa Millaman.

The winery draws on two estates in the Curicó Valley. At Fundo Peteroa, with alluvial soils and a Mediterranean climate, are the vines planted in 1940 that yield the Paya de Millaman Malbec. At Fundo San Jorge, in Los Niches, at the foot of the Andes, it protects a Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard dating from 1940 that it presents as one of the oldest in Chile. The range shown on its website runs from Estate Reserve to Limited Reserve, 3 Orígenes (a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Zinfandel), Paya de Millaman and Casa Millaman, plus the Festa sparkling wines. The Limited Reserve Zinfandel and Chardonnay come from the Maipo Valley. The head winemaker is Carolina França, named Best Woman Winemaker at Japan's SAKURA 2026 awards for the Limited Reserve Zinfandel 2023.

Today Millaman publishes no tours, hours or visit prices. Years ago it offered tours of the gardens, the manor house, the vineyards, the olive groves and the cellar, later booked through the Ruta del Vino de Curicó, but that offer no longer appears on its website. It keeps a wine shop in Peteroa (+56 9 7518 6299, ventas@millaman.cl), which you should call before going, and in 2026 it opened the estate for two events with tastings and local producers: “Vino, Chicha y Patrimonio” (Wine, Chicha and Heritage), in May, and the Mercado Millaman, in September; for now no upcoming date has been announced. Its wines can also be bought online at Emporio TerraMater, the store linked from its website. When looking it up on maps, take care: Google Maps associates the winery's website with a cellar called Viña El Cóndor, in the El Cóndor sector of Molina, about 18 km from Peteroa; the winery does not mention it in its channels, and everything it announces to the public takes place at Fundo Peteroa.