Wineries working old vines, many of them head-trained and dry-farmed, planted fifty, a hundred or more years ago. Seeing them in person explains better than any tasting why these wines taste the way they do.
76 wineries open to visitors in 12 valleys, north to south.
Family winery in Codpa that makes Pintatani, a sweet wine from sun-dried (asoleada) País grapes trodden in a stone lagar (treading vat); tours of the valley and home cooking at Punto Cortes de Marcelina.
Boutique winery of Californians Ed and Jenny Flaherty in the adobe manor house of the old Fundo El Magnolio, in Santa María: red blends from Aconcagua and Cauquenes and signature lunches.
Pablo Morandé's family winery in Casablanca, making wines in clay tinajas and giant amphorae with old-vine Carignan from Maule; tours, tastings and pairings in its underground cellar.
Family garage winery in Algarrobo: single-parcel wines made with native yeasts, unfiltered and additive-free, with hand-painted labels. Wine shop and tours with the owners.
Family winery founded in 1856 in Peñalolén, within Santiago and at the foot of the Andes: 19th-century underground cellars, a museum, tours with tasting and the Jardín de Macul.
Family winery of Norwegian origin in Padre Hurtado: a gravity-flow cellar, three organic vineyards, century-old Carignan from Cauquenes, fjord horses, and tours, tastings, picnics and horseback rides.
Family winery in Isla de Maipo since 1934, with wines from Maipo to Itata. A visit to the cellar, the foudres and the clay tinajas, with five tastings to choose from, Monday to Friday and by booking.
Family winery in Isla de Maipo with vines up to 70 years old, Zinfandel and Sangiovese, its own olive oil, four experiences with tasting, a wine shop and an Italian-influenced restaurant.
Family winery in Paine, at the foot of the Andean foothills: an organic blend of nine grape varieties and a País from century-old vines in Itata. Visits by booking, with tasting and a home-cooked lunch.
Family winery in the Almahue valley, in Pichidegua, with Carménère vines from 1945. Visits by booking: tastings in its adobe cellar, vineyard tours and a hike up Cerro Mancumán.
Viña Morandé's headquarters in Pelequén, Cachapoal, with the gravity-flow Bodega Aventura. Its Wine Shop on Ruta 5 sells the full range; its website invites you to book a visit, without saying what it includes.
Family winery in Cunaco (Colchagua) with century-old Malbec vines, horse-drawn carriage tours, tastings in the historic cellar, the Rayuela restaurant, a lodge among the vines and an equestrian club.
Winery in Lolol founded in 2003 by Carlos Cardoen, with tours and tasting, a cable car up to the Cerro de las Culturas, an observatory, wine and car museums and the Loló restaurant.
Family winery in Placilla, Colchagua, founded in 1965 by winemaker Mario Ravanal on vines over a hundred years old; eight experiences, from a tasting with no booking needed to the harvest.
Family winery in Angostura, next to San Fernando, with Cabernet Sauvignon vines planted in 1903; it offers tours and tastings around a 1930s chalet and its underground cellar.
Family winery in Colchagua with a 19th-century cellar in Angostura: tours and tastings of Carménère and wines from Lago Ranco, the Club House restaurant beside the polo field and a boutique hotel.
The Novoa family's vineyard in the dryland of Pumanque: tastings led by its winemaker among Carménère, Petit Verdot and Cabernet vines, a blend-your-own session and picnics.
The Tutunjian family's winery in Millahue de Apalta, known for its Envero and Grial Carménères; wine shop open daily and tastings by advance booking by email.
Seven-level gravity-flow winery dug into the Apalta hillside, birthplace of the icon wine Clos Apalta: private visits with tasting, century-old organic vines, a restaurant and a Relais & Châteaux hotel.
Century-old adobe winery at the eastern end of Apalta, with Cabernet Sauvignon vines from 1889 and certified organic and biodynamic farming; tours with a tasting of Neyen and Primus.
The Cabello family's country winery in El Cóndor de Apalta, with dry-farmed vines over 120 years old; a cart tour or sunset tour with a tasting of its award-winning wines, by appointment only.
Boutique winery of an English vintner in Santa Ana de Población, Peralillo: Rhône-style blends, old-vine País and Sangiovese, a tour with a six-wine tasting and two Winery Studios with a pool.
Elina and Fernando's micro-winery in San Gregorio, Nancagua: around 4,000 bottles a year of unfiltered reds, with Carménère and Mourvèdre from their home garden. Visits by appointment.
Lapostolle's original winery in Cunaco, a hacienda-style manor house beside Ruta 90, with a shop selling the family's wines and piscos and tastings by the glass Monday to Saturday.
The Maturana siblings' boutique winery in Angostura, San Fernando, with wines from heritage grapes such as Torontel, País and San Francisco and a tour with tasting and cheeses.
The Torres family's winery in Curicó since 1979, with organic and regenerative vineyards, tours and tastings booked online, the La Bodeguita restaurant and a wine shop beside Ruta 5.
Small artisan winery in Romeral, a few minutes from Curicó: blends of unusual grapes, aging in clay amphorae (tinajas) and a visit with tasting and nibbles led by the people who make the wine.
Family winery in Caliboro, in the Maule drylands, with century-old vines and regenerative farming; tours with tasting, lunches under a century-old vine arbor and a wine shop.
Family winery in Caliboro Bajo, San Javier, that has opened its home to visitors since 2010: a tour through old vines, a tasting of País, Carignan and sweet wines, a horse-cart ride and farm lodging with a pool.
Born in a garage in 2001, it rescues old Carignan and País vines from the Maule drylands. It receives groups by booking at its Caliboro winery, shared with Erasmo, and at a house in Providencia.
Boutique hotel in an 1843 adobe manor house and old winery in Mingre, in the Maule drylands, where the Bouchon family makes Longaví. Tour with a four-wine tasting, booking required.
The Balduzzi family's winery in San Javier, 500 m from Ruta 5: a four-wine tasting with no booking needed, a free self-guided tour with a mini-museum, and reds from the dry-farmed interior of Maule.
Family winery in Melozal with old vines and wines from País, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carménère and Merlot; direct sales and a tour with tasting through the cellar, manor house and vineyards.
Family winery in the Cauquenes drylands, with century-old Carignan and País vines, an underground cellar, a restaurant, cabins in native forest and a spa. Visits are booked via WhatsApp.
Family winery with País vines around 200 years old on the south bank of the Maule, opposite González Bastías station. Natural wines, an online shop and visits by booking.
Family winery in Limávida, Curepto, with dry-farmed vines planted from the 1970s, naturally made wines and Pét-Nat sparklers. Visits by booking to its adobe cellar and the vineyard.
Cooperative in San Javier founded in 1959, with around a hundred members and País vines in the dry-farmed interior. It makes País Mágico, Kimche and the Ovo sparkling wine; it has a wine shop and an online shop.
Two women, agronomists and winemakers, make signature wines in the Cauquenes drylands from old-vine Carignan and Cinsault. Visits by appointment only and purchases through its online shop.
Donoso Group's winery at Fundo La Oriental, on the outskirts of Talca: a manor house, vines over 80 years old and visits with tasting, by booking and Monday to Friday.
Family winery founded in 1990 in the coastal drylands of Loncomilla, with unirrigated old vines and Italian varieties; its brick cellar with giant barrels welcomes visitors for tastings.
Family winery in the Itata drylands, in Ránquil: head-trained old vines, small-batch wines and its own grape varieties such as Castellón Noir. Vineyard tours and tastings by booking.
Family vineyard in Ránquil, farmed since the 1930s and now run by María Loreto Alarcón: dry-farmed País, Cinsault, Carignan and Moscatel, with tours and sensory tastings by booking.
Fourth-generation family winery in Portezuelo, with an adobe cellar from around 1870, raulí-wood vats and organically farmed old País and Moscatel vines. Tours and lunches by booking.
Small family farm winery in Portezuelo, founded in 1986, with País vines over a hundred years old, pipeño (country wine) aged in Chilean wood and tours with a lookout and country cooking.
Family winery of German descent in Bulnes, with old dry-farmed vines in Itata and tours with a five-wine tasting led by winemakers Heinrich and Martin Männle.
Family winery in Guarilihue, in the Itata drylands: an adobe-and-tile cellar, old País, Cinsault and Moscatel vines, tours with tasting, dome lodgings with hot tubs and a seasonal restaurant.
Third-generation family winery in Huape, Chillán, with its own grapes, an online shop, and tastings and vineyard tours arranged directly with the estate.
Project of Leo Erazo and his family, with the A Los Viñateros Bravos series from century-old vines in Guarilihue. The winery is in Cobquecura, facing the Pacific, with visits and stays in its refugios (cabins) arranged by email.
François Massoc's family winery in Quillón: País from very old vines, dry Moscatel, Cinsault and sweet fortified wines. Visits by appointment, to be confirmed; online shop selling by the case.
Family winery on the banks of the Larqui River, in Chillán Viejo: dry-farmed Chardonnay planted in 1992, Pinot Noir and Riesling in the Los Patricios and Larkün lines. Online shop and visits by appointment.
Group of five family wineries in Guarilihue that has bottled old-vine Cinsault, País and Moscatel since 2016, with a wine shop and tastings by booking.
Family winery in Checura, Coelemu: ungrafted old Moscatel, País and Cinsault vines, a mud-walled cellar and natural wines. Visit with tasting by booking, plus a cabin among the vines.
Family winery in Portezuelo, in the Itata drylands, with old-vine Cinsault, País and Moscatel, sparkling and sweet wines. Visits by appointment and direct sales via WhatsApp.
Family winery in the Altos de Guarilihue named after the bandit José Miguel Neira: dry-farmed Cinsault, País and Moscatel, natural wines and visits by appointment.
Family winery in Cerro Negro, Quillón, with dry-farmed vines and País, Malbec and sweet wines. It has cabins built from old wine vats and an inn serving empanadas from a clay oven.
Family winery in Crucero de Huaro, Florida, with old Cinsault, País and Moscatel de Alejandría vines. It makes Curiche and Los Troncos, and receives small groups by booking.
Dry-farmed family winery in Los Mayos, Florida, right on the border with Ránquil. País, Moscatel de Alejandría and Cinsault wines; vineyard tours and tastings by appointment.
Family winery in Panguilemu, Portezuelo, with century-old dry-farmed País, Moscatel and Cinsault vines; natural wines by Sofía Parra and visits by appointment, with a tasting and country cooking.
Family winery in the Miraflores area of Coelemu, with century-old País and Moscatel de Alejandría vines; by booking it opens its cellar for vineyard tours, tastings and wine sales.
Family winery in Guarilihue, in the Itata drylands: old-vine Moscatel, Cinsault, País and Corinto, fermented with native yeasts. Visits by booking only, to be confirmed with the estate.
Family winery in the Quillayal area of Laja that makes País and Malbec wines; a rural complex with cabins, a pool, hot tubs, an educational farm, horseback rides and tastings.
Family winery in the Yumbel drylands where Manuel Moraga Gutiérrez makes natural wines from old País and Moscatel vines; tours, tastings and lunches by booking.
The Rozas family's winery in Los Callejones, San Rosendo: head-trained Malbec around 160 years old, dry-farmed País and Moscatel; tours with tasting, a traditional country lunch and a dome with hot tub.
The Espinoza family's winery in Peñaflor, San Rosendo, with Malbec, País and Moscatel de Alejandría vines over 150 years old, estate-bottled wines and visits by booking.
The Cea family's country winery in Millapoa, beside the Biobío River: natural wines from century-old País vines, home cooking, kayaks and a guesthouse, always by booking.
Family winery in Millapoa, Nacimiento, beside the Biobío River, with century-old País vines. Tours with tasting, country cooking and pottery, always with advance booking.
Association of small growers from Colico and Tanahuillín, in Santa Juana, that bottles País and Moscatel de Alejandría wines and opens its cellars on a country wine route for groups.
Farmers' cooperative in Nacimiento, founded in 1969, that rescues century-old País vines in Millapoa and La Palmilla; its Rosé de País 2025 won gold at Catad'Or.
Natural wines from century-old País, Semillón and Moscatel vines in Biobío and Itata. Visits take place at Tierra de Pumas, in El Venado, Santa Juana: vineyard, cellar and a five-wine tasting.
Family winery in the Arinco area of Nacimiento that works dry-farmed País vines over 150 years old; it rents cabins with a pool and hot tub, and welcomes visitors by booking.
Family winery on the northern edge of Yumbel that tends old País vines; a heritage tour with a tasting of rosé, País and reds, always with advance booking.
Family winery in Río Claro, in the Yumbel drylands, with old País and Moscatel vines; it sells wines, late harvest, chicha and aguardiente at its wine shop and welcomes visitors by appointment.
Family winery in Tomentucó, in Rere (Yumbel), where Pamela Zambrano makes natural red and rosé wines, dry and sweet, from old País vines. Visits, pool and camping by booking.
Family winery in the dry-farmed interior of Yumbel, with unirrigated bush vines of País, Carignan, Malbec and Moscatel, an adobe cellar and guided visits with tasting, always by booking.
Family project of Mauricio González and Daniela Tapia in the Yumbel drylands: pipeño (country wine) and natural wines from old País, Moscatel and Malbec vines, made in raulí-wood treading vats and clay tinajas.
Small winery in Galvarino, in the Cautín Valley, with cool-climate Riesling, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay plus grapes from old vines in Malleco. Tour and tasting of 4 wines by booking.
