Moretta Wines

The winery

Moretta Wines grew out of a friendship: María José Ortúzar and Natalia Poblete met on their first day of agronomy at the Universidad Católica, graduated in 2007 and worked at other wineries before founding their brand in 2015. As they told The Clinic, in 2016 they came to the small vineyard of don Andrés Guzmán, in Cauquenes, and bought the Cinsault he used to sell at the local market. In 2017, when smoke from the wildfires made his usual buyer back out, they took the whole harvest, and from it came Ceniciento (“ashen”), their first Cabernet Sauvignon and today one of their biggest successes. In 2023 they bought that vineyard. They started with two thousand bottles and now produce around 30,000 a year, of which close to 40% is exported. The name comes from the moretta, an old Venetian carnival mask.

The winery calls its vineyard El Majuelo, in the dry-farmed interior of Maule, in the Cauquenes area, about 35 km from the sea: gentle hills and granitic soils full of quartz. From that source come Carigno del Maule, a Carignan from head-trained vines around 75 years old, aged 20 months in used French barrels; Vedette, a Cinsault from vines around 70 years old, made in very few bottles; and Ceniciento, from trellised Cabernet Sauvignon. Les Espías is the entry line, with a red of Cabernet Sauvignon and Carignan and a white of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillón. Other wines have a different origin: Sintruco Carménère combines Carménère from Colchagua with Carignan from Cauquenes, and La Novia Frustrada is a Pinot Blanc from Casablanca. The winery reports that Vedette was the best Cinsault in Descorchados 2026, with 94 points, that Carigno del Maule 2022 ranked 50th in James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of Chile 2025, and that Natalia Poblete was named young winemaker of the year in Tim Atkin's 2018 Chile report.

Moretta publishes no tours, hours or address. Its website says it loves receiving visitors, in explaining that order pickups are arranged by day and time, and its page at MOVI, the Movimiento de Viñateros Independientes (Independent Winegrowers Movement), offers private tastings. Anyone wanting to visit should first write to info@morettawines.cl or WhatsApp +56 9 8596 5972 to agree on a place and terms. The wines are sold through the winery's online shop, which ships to most cities in the country, and at Unimarc supermarkets and wine shops such as La Cav, Vinoteca Italia and Santiago Wine Club.