Viñedos Pilquicura

The winery

Viñedos Pilquicura is a family project in Santa Sofía, a hamlet about 3 km west of the center of Cauquenes, in the dry-farmed interior of Maule. It presents itself as “family vineyards” and works “from vineyard to bottle”: the Ruta del Vino del Valle del Maule, the valley's wine route, which took it on as a member in April 2026, describes it with the vineyard at its core and the cellar in a supporting role. The winery publishes neither its starting year nor its total area, but says its Chardonnay vines have been planted on granitic soils since 1992. As the 2026 harvest began, in late February, it reported that its dry-farmed vines had withstood heat waves and high radiation and reached ripeness while keeping their natural acidity.

Its wines come out under two labels. The Sapiens line, “thinking wines” according to its labels, brings together a Chardonnay (no. 1), a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot (no. 2) and a Syrah (no. 3). Sintrópico is a Merlot from a 0.4-hectare micro-plot, farmed for about eight years with syntropic agriculture, a method that seeks to imitate the dynamics of forests to restore soils and increase biodiversity without external inputs. The winery says it labels and wax-seals its bottles by hand. Alongside the vines, the family runs sister projects in flowers, lambs and honey.

For now Pilquicura publishes no visitor program, hours or prices: the wine route's membership sheet lists it with visits to be confirmed and contact through the route itself or its social media. No website or online shop is known either, so the channel for asking about a visit or bottles is its Instagram, @vinedospilquicura, active through 2026. Its wines have been poured and sold at one-off gatherings: the tenth País wine fair, in the Plaza de Cauquenes, in late 2025, and a dinner at the González Bastías house in February 2026.