Viñedos Orgánicos Veramonte

The winery

Veramonte was born in the 1990s as one of the pioneering projects of the Casablanca Valley, driven by businessman Agustín Huneeus. In 2016 the Jerez-based group González Byass, the house behind Tío Pepe, bought the majority stake, and today the winery shares an owner and a team with Neyen de Apalta, in Colchagua. Its cellar, a colonnaded building with a green roof and a lantern on top, surrounded by palms, olive trees and ponds, stands beside Ruta 68, at kilometer 66, halfway between Santiago and Valparaíso; La Casona, the visitor center, operates there.

The vineyard is about 30 kilometers from the Pacific: morning fog and the sea breeze make the grapes ripen slowly and keep their acidity. On the slopes the soils are weathered granite; on the flat, alluvial and clayey. The farm is worked regeneratively and organically, with Ecocert certification (the first certified wine was the 2018 Sauvignon Blanc), and with biodynamic practices: homemade compost, biodynamic preparations, cover crops between the rows, sheep and alpacas grazing in the vineyard and a collaborative vegetable garden with local families. The general manager and winemaker is Gonzalo Bertelsen and the viticulturist is Gonzalo Morales. The house lines are Veramonte Orgánico, fresh wines of Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and reds; Ritual, from small blocks and minimal intervention; and Ritual Block, from micro-parcels such as Supertuga (Chardonnay) and Alcaparral (Syrah). The Ritual Syrah Alcaparral Block 2022 placed fifth in James Suckling's Top 100 wines of Chile 2025.

Visits start at La Casona and go through the Galería Viva, the winery's outdoor park: a soil pit showing the soil profile, the organic vegetable garden, the garden of varieties and aromas, the biodynamic preparations and the resting area for the alpacas and sheep. Tours with tasting last around an hour and a half and end with three or four wines, sometimes with a small platter of local products; there are versions centered on Veramonte, on Ritual or on the group's icon wines, which include Alma de Apalta and Neyen. You can also do the tour without a tasting, visit only the aroma room, or have a tasting without the tour. Book online at least 24 hours ahead, with a minimum of two people; departures run every day between 10:00 and 15:30. La Casona has a wine shop. The winery currently advertises no restaurant or café: the restaurant Casa Barroso, which opened on the property in 2025, stopped serving in early 2026 according to recent reviews.