Santiago: Main Chilean Wineries Private Half-Day Tours

Santiago: Main Chilean Wineries Private Half-Day Tours

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Learn about the wine industry in Chile and taste quality local wines on this private tour. Choose between 4 of the most well-known Chilean wineries to discover: Santa Rita, Concha y Toro, Undurraga, or Cousiño Macul. Relish included tastings and lunch.

Highlights

Learn about Chile's wine industry with a local guide
Delight in a private tour exclusively for your group
Taste wines in 1 of 4 of the most famous Chilean wineries
Soak up the wine with an included local lunch
Enjoy included hotel pickup and drop-off, as well as a scenic drive

Description

Following an early pickup from your hotel in Santiago, begin your private tour of Chile's fantastic wine industry. During the day, find out about wine history in Santiago with your guide, and after a tour in the winery of your choice, savor a typical lunch in a local restaurant. The tour concludes with drop-off at your hotel. There are 4 wineries to choose from, all with wine tasting included: • Santa Rita — Discover over 135 years of winemaking tradition at Santa Rita Winery, one of the top wineries in the Maipo Valley. Take a guided tour through the grape variety garden and the vineyards. Learn about the process of winemaking, including the cellaring and bottling of the wines. • Undurraga — Explore wine cellars with more than 130 years of experience and have the chance to understand the production process of their unique wines. Visit the Parque de la Viña, created by the French landscape architect George Henry Dubois, who also designed the Parque Forestal de Santiago. When visiting the vineyards, learn about the soils and identify the different grapes that Undurraga cultivates in the various gardens. • Concha y Toro — Take the chance to walk through the beautiful gardens and the park of what used to be the summer residence of the Concha y Toro family towards the end of the 19th century. Find out where Concha y Toro wines come from in the Grape Variety Garden, where you'll discover around 26 varieties of wine grapes and a panoramic view of Maipo Valley. Visit the Old Pirque vineyard and the wine cellars, including the centenarian Casillero del Diablo, the birthplace of the wine legend. • Cousiño Macul — Visit the traditional winery of Cousiño Macul, which holds true to a more than 100-year-old tradition of grape growing, and is recognized as one of the oldest wineries in the country. The cellar is made of Cal y Canto — a mixture of lime, sand, and egg white — and is one of the most beautiful examples of this style in Chile. Explore the winemaking process and learn about the huge contrast in equipment used in old wineries such as these, and the newer equipment most modern wineries now use.

Includes

Hotel pickup and drop-off Spanish, English or Portuguese-speaking tour guide Entrance fee for the chosen winery with wine tasting included Lunch in a local restaurant