Viña Ventisquero - Viñedo Trinidad (Maipo Costa)

The winery

Viña Ventisquero was born at the Trinidad estate, in the Maipo Costa, where businessman Gonzalo Vial planted his first vines in 1998 and where the winery of the Ventisquero Wine Estates group was built. From 2000, with winemaker Felipe Tosso and the advice of Australian John Duval, the house spread to other valleys, and today it works its own vineyards in Maipo, Casablanca, Leyda, Colchagua and Huasco. The Descorchados 2026 guide named it Winery of the Year. This profile covers Trinidad, in the municipality of San Pedro, Metropolitan Region. Its La Roblería vineyard, in Apalta, has its own profile in the Colchagua Valley, and the corporate address shown on its website, in Lo Miranda (Doñihue), is not among the places open to visitors.

The property has 381 hectares of vines planted between 150 and 260 meters above sea level, about 50 kilometers from the Pacific, drip-irrigated with water from deep wells and trained on trellises. The climate has a long dry season and maritime influence, with summer highs near 29 °C and some 500 millimeters of rain a year. The soils are alluvial, clay on the slopes and sandy loam on the flat. This is the source of the Grey Carménère and Cabernet Sauvignon, each from a single block: the first from block 5, on a soil of alternating layers of clay and coarse sand, and the second from block 38, on a foothill of clay over granite. The Grey Cabernet Franc is also born at Trinidad. According to the 2019 vintage sheet, the Cabernet Sauvignon harvest took place in late March and the Carménère was picked by hand in early May.

The visit covers the winery and the vineyard, always with a booking. There are three tours of about 75 minutes following the same route: they begin with the history of the house, pass through a variety garden with up to 35 of the grapes it grows across Chile, and enter the winery following the path of the grape, from reception and sorting to the steel tanks, the barrels, the foudres (large wooden casks), the concrete eggs and the bottling line. What changes is the tasting: four Grey wines, three Grey and one Ramirana, or four top-tier wines (Vértice, Herú, Obliqua and Pangea). They do not include transfers, and the tasting is for over-18s only. There is a wine shop on site, and the wines can also be bought in the winery's online store. Enoturismo Chile also mentions wines by the glass, tastings without a tour and lunches for groups, which you ask about directly because no price is published. No restaurant open to the public or accommodation is published.