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Tapihue Wines

The William Cole winery, part of the Tapihue Wines group, in the Tapihue area of Casablanca: cool-climate wines, tours with tasting, a bike ride to the lagoon and wine-paired lunches.

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Bodega William Cole, de muros color arena y torre de ventanales, con una terraza metálica, un arco cubierto de enredaderas y un macizo de rosas blancas frente al césped, bajo un cielo despejado
Photo: Tapihue Wines

Experiences (10)

Experience names and descriptions are the ones published by the winery, in Spanish.

Copas de cata vacías con el grabado de William Cole sobre una hoja de notas de cata, en una sala con ventanales y muros de madera
Tour and tasting

Tour y Degustación Casual

Tour regular con guía bilingüe: historia de la viña, recorrido por el viñedo, la sala de vinificación, la línea de embotellado y la sala…

1 hMon to SatEnglish
Pasillo de la sala de barricas con barricas de roble apiladas en estructuras metálicas a ambos lados, bajo un techo de vigas iluminado por un foco
Tour and tasting

Tour y Degustación Tapihue

Tour regular con guía bilingüe: historia de la viña, recorrido por el viñedo, la sala de vinificación, la línea de embotellado y la sala…

from CLP 23,5001 hMon to SatEnglish
Copa de vino tinto, botella de William Cole Grand Reserve Pinot Noir y tabla de quesos sobre una barrica, junto a un balde con flores, al sol en un patio de tierra
Premium tasting

Tour y Degustación Experience

Tour privado con guía bilingüe: jardín de cepas, donde se conocen las variedades con que se elaboran los vinos, cuartel de Sauvignon…

from CLP 45,0002 hMon to SatEnglish
Sala de vinificación con estanques de acero inoxidable y pasarelas metálicas bajo un techo abovedado, con barricas apiladas en el piso
Tour and tasting

Tour sin degustación

Recorrido guiado por el viñedo, la sala de vinificación, la línea de embotellado y la sala de barricas, sin degustación. Al final la…

45 minMon to SatEnglish
Bodega William Cole, de muros color arena y torre de ventanales, con una terraza metálica, un arco cubierto de enredaderas y un macizo de rosas blancas frente al césped, bajo un cielo despejado
Winemaker for a day

Yo Enólogo

Actividad para grupos: recorrido por la bodega, presentación de las variedades y sus características y, con ayuda de los guías, pruebas…

1 h 30 minMon to Sat
Bodega William Cole, de muros color arena y torre de ventanales, con una terraza metálica, un arco cubierto de enredaderas y un macizo de rosas blancas frente al césped, bajo un cielo despejado
Experience

Asado Campestre

Asado campestre a la chilena en la terraza de la bodega William Cole, con distintas opciones según el grupo. Mínimo 12 y máximo 60…

2 h 30 minMon to Sat
Mesa puesta al aire libre con camino rojo, ensalada de camarones y palta en un plato blanco, copas y una botella de William Cole Reserve Sauvignon Blanc
Lunch or dinner

Menú 3 tiempos

Almuerzo maridado para grupos: mousse de palta y pepino con camarones al panko (Pinot Noir Gran Reserva), filete de res sobre pastelera…

from CLP 67,9002 h 30 minMon to Sat
Puesto de mesa con plato blanco, servilleta doblada, cubiertos y varias copas sobre un camino de mesa rojo, con un arreglo de rosas blancas en el centro
Lunch or dinner

Maridaje

Tour con guía bilingüe por el viñedo, el jardín de variedades, la bodega, la línea de embotellado y la sala de barricas, seguido de un…

from CLP 74,0002 h 30 minMon to SatEnglish
Canasta de mimbre, botella de vino blanco Bill, copas y sándwiches con waffles sobre una manta a rayas en el pasto; se ven solo las manos de quienes brindan
Picnic

Picnic

Picnic en los jardines de la viña William Cole con un recorrido breve guiado en español o inglés. Incluye 1 botella de vino Reserva a…

1 h 30 minMon to SatEnglish
Bicicleta naranja apoyada en una banca de madera a orillas de la laguna, bajo las ramas de un sauce
Bike ride

Tour en bicicleta & picnic

Paseo guiado en bicicleta de unos 3 kilómetros por el viñedo, con explicaciones sobre su manejo y la etapa en que se encuentra, hasta la…

from CLP 55,0002 h 30 minMon to SatEnglish

At a glance

Rating4.7 / 5 on Google
Wines in the shopfrom CLP 14,500
HarvestApril
Founded1999
Vineyard180 ha
Flagship grapes
Sauvignon BlancChardonnayPinot NoirCabernet SauvignonCarménère
Awards
  • Tim Atkin MW, Chile Report 2026: William Cole Chardonnay Grand Reserve 2025, 92 pts
  • Tim Atkin MW, Chile Report 2026: William Cole Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Reserve 2023, 91 pts
  • Descorchados (anunciado por la viña en abril de 2026): Quintay Blend Limited Collection II (Malbec y Syrah), 92 pts
  • Descorchados 2024: William Cole Bill Limited Edition Signature, 93 pts
  • Descorchados 2024: Tapihue (Maipo Costa), 93 pts
  • La Cav, Guía Mesa de Cata 2024: Icono Tapihue 2018, 93 pts

The winery

Tapihue Wines is the Weinstein family's wine group and makes its home at the William Cole winery, in the Tapihue area, in the heart of the Casablanca Valley. The winery is named after its founder, the American William Cole, who after traveling through Chile and Argentina looking for a place to settle chose this coastal valley and planted his first vines in 1999; the cellar, recognizable by its glass-walled tower, went up shortly afterward, around 2001. Today the group makes and sells the William Cole, Viña Quintay, Alto Vuelo and Albamar brands, exports to more than 35 countries, and its winemaking team is led by Ximena Klein, head winemaker since 2015, and Rodrigo Sala, in charge of the group's winemaking since 2021. The estate and the cellar have belonged since 1999 to Viña El Rosal, the group company that also makes export wines and private labels. Viña Quintay, founded in 2005, keeps its own cellar beside Ruta 68, designed by Mathias Klotz, but does not receive visitors: its wines are bought in the Tapihue shop.

Around the cellar stretch some 130 hectares of trellised vineyard, on alluvial soils about 40 kilometers from the Pacific, planted with cool-climate varieties: Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The reds from warmer areas, such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Carménère, come from the group's farms and from partner growers in Maipo, Colchagua and Cachapoal. The winery has capacity for about three million liters in steel tanks, a semi-underground barrel room and its own bottling line. The William Cole range runs from Vineyard Selection and Reserve to Grand Reserve and to Bill, a limited line of hand-picked grapes that bears the founder's nickname; at the top is Tapihue, a blend of Petite Sirah, Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon from a high-altitude vineyard in Maipo Costa, with two years in barrel. In Tim Atkin's 2026 report, William Cole's Grand Reserve Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon scored 92 and 91 points.

Visits run Monday to Saturday, booking required. The regular tours, with guides in Spanish and English, leave at 10:30, 12:00 and 15:00: they cover the vineyard, the winemaking hall, the bottling line and the barrel room, and end with a tasting of three or four Gran Reserva wines; there is also a version without tasting and a private tour, Experience, which adds the grape-variety garden and the Sauvignon Blanc block, with premium wines and a cheese board. To stay longer there are a picnic in the gardens, a bike ride of about three kilometers to the lagoon in the middle of the vineyard and a five-course paired lunch; groups can book a country-style asado (barbecue), a three-course menu or the Yo Enólogo activity, in which each participant builds, bottles and labels their own blend. There is no à la carte restaurant. The winery shop sells the group's wines along with products from local artisans, and the hall, terrace and gardens are rented out for weddings and events.

Gallery

Photos: Tapihue Wines.

Bodega William Cole, de muros color arena y torre de ventanales, con una terraza metálica, un arco cubierto de enredaderas y un macizo de rosas blancas frente al césped, bajo un cielo despejado
Bodega William Cole, de muros color arena y torre de ventanales, con una terraza metálica, un arco cubierto de enredaderas y un macizo de rosas blancas frente al césped, bajo un cielo despejado · Photo: Tapihue Wines

Getting there

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Profile verified on November 1, 2026 by The Wine Travel Guide team against official sources.

Winery registered with the SAG (Chile's agricultural service) as a wine producer (official list, November 2026).

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