Bodegas RE

The winery

Bodegas RE is the family project of Pablo Morandé Lavín, the winemaker who planted the first vines in the Casablanca Valley in 1982 and who, before that, created Don Melchor during his two decades at Concha y Toro. In 2008 he decided to make his own wines with his children Piedad, a winemaker and the winery's administrator, and Pablo, also a winemaker: the first vintage was a Carignan from Maule made in old tinajas (clay amphorae), and in 2012 they opened the winery on Camino Lo Ovalle, in Casablanca. The name plays on the prefix “re”: to recreate, reinvent and reveal the wines of their ancestors, winegrowers from Peñaflor and Cauquenes who fermented and stored their wines and liqueurs in clay tinajas. Since 2023 the family has shared the project with wine entrepreneur José Crispi.

The grapes come from two places: old dry-farmed vines on the clay hills of Maule, with Carignan and Cabernet Sauvignon, and cool-climate vineyards in Casablanca for Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Syrah. Part of the wine ferments in the family's tinajas from Maule and in giant concrete amphorae modeled on them, inside a semi-buried cellar that stays between 14 and 16 °C without refrigeration and moves the grapes by gravity. Almost all the wines are two-grape blends with names of their own: Pinotel (Pinot Noir and Moscatel Rosado), Chardonnoir (Chardonnay and Pinot Noir), Syragnan (Syrah and Carignan) and Cabergnan (Cabernet Sauvignon and Carignan), while REnace, the icon wine, rests on Carignan from old Maule vines. The house also makes fruit liqueurs, the REliquias, and a wine balsamic.

The visit takes in the garden of ancestral varieties, the liqueur and balsamic rooms and the underground cellar of barrels, tinajas and amphorae, and ends at the Emporio RE, the winery's shop. There is a simple tour and versions with a tasting of two to seven wines served with a platter; on Sundays only the tastings with a cellar visit are offered. Rounding out the offer are a private tour with the icon wines, the four-course Maridaje RE pairing (Monday to Friday, from six people), a picnic in the cork-oak courtyard between September and April and the Winemaker for a Day activity, in which each participant builds their own blend. Everything is booked on the website, by WhatsApp or by email, after confirming availability. In 2026 the winery won the national Enoturismo a Escala Humana (human-scale wine tourism) award from Enoturismo Chile.