Viña TerraNoble

The winery

TerraNoble was born in 1993 in the municipality of San Clemente, in the part of the Maule Valley known as the Claro Valley, when a group led by Jorge Elgueta bet on these soils for making fine wines. It started as a small winery specializing in Merlot, but in 1994, when it was discovered that part of Chile's Merlot was in fact Carménère, it decided to keep those vines and make the grape its signature. From 2003, with Wolf von Appen at the head, it expanded into Colchagua and Casablanca. The winery says that in 2016 the International Wine & Spirits Competition named it Chilean producer of the year. It has held the Sustainable Wine of Chile certification since 2019 and the V-Label vegan seal since 2020.

Today it works close to 300 planted hectares in three valleys. At La Higuera, the vineyard where the winery stands, there are 90 hectares of alluvial and colluvial soils, with Carménère, Merlot, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Garnacha. In Colchagua it has Los Lingues, at the foot of the Andes, and Los Cactus, in Marchigüe; in Casablanca, El Algarrobo, in the cool Las Dichas area. The catalog includes the Civis and Azara lines, the Carménère CA1 Andes and CA2 Costa, which compare the influence of the mountains and of the sea, the cool-climate Algarrobo wines, the Disidente wines and the Lahuen blend. Raíces del Maule, its icon wine, blends Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carignan and Merlot, and in 2026 Algarrobo Cero Cuatro, a Pinot Noir from Casablanca, joined the range.

Visits take place at the La Higuera estate, about 18 km from Talca. There are three tours of the vineyards and winery with tasting, Tuesday to Saturday at 12:00 and 15:00: Conociendo el Maule, Pasión por el Carmenere and Explorando la Excelencia, from CLP 22,000 to 35,000 per person. For couples there is Noble Escapada, a two-day program with a night in a hotel in Talca and lunch at the winery. Book on the winery's tours page or at tours@terranoble.cl, at least one business day ahead, and three in the case of the getaway. In May 2026 the winery opened a shop on the same estate with its full portfolio; the wines are also sold online, at miterranoble.cl.