Piedra Sagrada

The winery

Piedra Sagrada is the only wine of Viña Arturo Pérez Rojas, a 3.8 ha family vineyard in Pirque, in the area the winery calls Maipo Andes. Its story begins with Arturo Pérez Rojas, an agronomist and winemaker in charge of viticulture under the government of Salvador Allende, who after the 1973 coup spent decades in exile in France. Around 2000 he bought a 4.5 ha plot from his sister-in-law to build a house, but ended up planting it with Cabernet Sauvignon; the first harvest was in 2005 and the grapes were sold to Concha y Toro. In the middle of the vines he raised a brick tower, a nod to the vineyards of Bordeaux, and during the works a large rock with two hollows appeared, which the family identifies as a probable piedra tacita (a pre-Hispanic cupule stone) and which gave the wine its name. Arturo died in 2013 without ever tasting it. His four children, who did not come from the wine world, decided not to sell: they made the first vintage in 2014, under the guidance of French consultant Éric Verdier, and released it to market in 2021.

The vineyard is at about 650 m above sea level, on an old alluvial terrace of poor soil with boulders and clay, in a cold part of Pirque where fall and spring frosts force them to protect it with sprinkler irrigation. The vines are massal-selection Cabernet Sauvignon, planted ungrafted and at high density, and are worked in seven blocks that ripen at different rates, so the manual harvest can last more than a month. The wine ferments with native yeasts, with no added nutrients or enzymes, and is aged in French oak barrels; Verdier defines the blend remotely, from samples he receives in France. Production varies between 3,000 and 8,000 bottles a year according to the official website, and reaches 10,000 according to the press. It is not made in Pirque: for the past couple of years it has been vinified and aged at the winery of its consulting winemaker, Álvaro Reyes, in Curicó, about two hours away, and the underground gravity-flow cellar the founder began digging beneath the property remains on hold. The 2016 vintage earned 98 points from Decanter, which included it among its wines of the year for 2025.

The winery publishes no visits, tours or opening hours, and has no wine shop of its own, so for now the way to get to know it is through its wine. In Chile it is sold at Butiq, a shop in Vitacura (Candelaria Goyenechea 3820, local 152) with delivery nationwide; in November 2026 it offered the 2021 and 2018 vintages, at CLP 350,000 and CLP 370,000 a bottle. Direct sales by the family, which distributes on its own in the European Union and has its contact address in Paris, are suspended because of demand and work through a waiting list filled in on the official website (sales@piedrasagrada.com).