Viña San Pedro (Molina)

The winery

Viña San Pedro began in 1865 in Molina, on a farm of barely four hectares belonging to the brothers José Gregorio and Bonifacio Correa Albano, who started with local grapes and later brought European varieties to the Curicó Valley. Their reds were already winning distinctions at the Paris and Barcelona exhibitions of 1888. In 1943 the winery passed from the Correa family to Wagner, Stein & Cía., and under Guillermo Stein it industrialized and kept adding brands, among them Castillo de Molina, born in 1980. In 2008 it merged with Viña Tarapacá, giving rise to VSPT Wine Group, today controlled by CCU.

The Molina property has 1,051 hectares of vineyard according to the group's 2025 annual report. Fundo San Pedro, at km 205 of Ruta 5, houses the winemaking cellar and the bottling plant, and Molina preserves an underground stone-and-lime cellar built around 1865. In 2026 the harvest started on 23 February with Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay and ended on 30 April with Carménère, and the group singled out the Sauvignon Blanc among the whites and the Cabernet Sauvignon among the reds. San Pedro is the source of Castillo de Molina, whose name recalls this origin even though it draws its grapes from several valleys, of GatoNegro, its everyday wine, and of the 1865 line, which won a Best in Show at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2026 with its Selected Vineyards Carmenère 2023. The icon wines took another path: Altaïr and Sideral were born in 2002 at the San Pedro Cachapoal Andes winery, and Cabo de Hornos, which in 1994 came from old Cabernet vines in Molina, has come entirely from there since the 2014 vintage.

There are no published tours in Molina: VSPT Tours & Events only organizes visits at San Pedro Cachapoal Andes (Totihue, Requínoa, about 100 km to the north, with its own listing), at Viña Tarapacá, in the Maipo, and at Casa Viñamar, in Casablanca. What you can do here is stop at the winery's cellar door, which the group calls Tienda Molina, beside Ruta 5; Google shows it open every day from 10:00 to 19:00, and it is worth calling ahead to confirm. To buy from anywhere there is Catadores, the group's online store, with Castillo de Molina, 1865 and Cabo de Hornos. The same store carries the wines of Leyda, the group's coastal winery in the Leyda Valley, which today operates as a brand, with no visits or tourism offer of its own: it does not appear in VSPT Tours & Events, its website leyda.cl redirects to Instagram (@leydawines), and its contact email is info@leyda.cl.