Viñedos Puertas

The winery

Viñedos Puertas was born in 1950 under José Puertas Pons, a Spanish immigrant from Campo, a village in the Ésera River valley in the province of Huesca. He started with 80 hectares of vineyard irrigated with water from the Andes and a one-million-liter cellar in Convento Viejo, in the heart of the Curicó Valley, which he named El Milagro. In the early days the business was selling grapes and bulk wine and providing custom-crush services to other wineries; today the company is still family-owned and, in addition, bottles its own portfolio under brands such as Aguanegra, El Milagro, Caballo Azul and Tronador.

The winery now grows its grapes in several sub-valleys of Curicó province, among them Convento Viejo, Quilvo, on the banks of the Teno River, and Palquibudis, on the Mataquito, as well as Isla de Marchant, Romeral and Río Claro, with different soils and microclimates for each grape. Its website lists 22 cultivars, from Cabernet Sauvignon, Carménère, Malbec and Syrah to Sangiovese, Tempranillo, Sauvignon Blanc and Viognier. Its wines include the Aguanegra gran reserva line, the El Milagro reservas, the Toro de Casta blend, Parnaso, a Carménère from the 2012 vintage made as an icon wine, and traditional-method sparkling wines such as Cava de Familia and Cencellada, a Pinot Noir rosé. In 2026 it also announced Certified Sustainable Wine of Chile certification.

The cellar is at Fundo El Milagro, in Convento Viejo, and has capacity for more than 25 million liters, with steel and concrete tanks, French oak barrels and an underground brick cellar where tastings are held. The winery publishes no tour with a price or schedule: on Instagram it invites anyone who wants a wine tour of the cellar to write to ventascurico@vinedospuertas.cl, and Enoturismo Chile advises booking 48 hours ahead. The wines can also be bought at its shop in Curicó (Camilo Henríquez 425), the one in Santiago (Vitacura 3881) and its online store; Enoturismo Chile also mentions a wine shop at the winery. No restaurant or accommodation is listed at the winery.