Tour: Full Day Tour Concha y Toro and Santa Rita Vineyards

Itinerario

Concha y Toro

This tour start from your hotel in Santiago towards Maipo valley, located 45 minutes south of the city. The visit begins in Don Melchor plaza where the guests will be received sincerely by a bilingual guide, whom will invite you to enjoy a panoramic visit of the vineyard, accompanied by a white wine cup of “Casillero del Diablo”, so that you can be full of aromas and flavors that arise step by step in this centennial warehouse. With the cup in hand, the visitor participates in a long walk by the old park, when appreciating the large house of Pirque, residence of Concha y Toro family. In this place the greatest wine company was been born more than 100 years ago. In the vineyards of Pirque you will be able to know the grapevines development, cultural and technological handling that is responsible for a yield of first quality. Once in the warehouse we’ll be able to taste an excellent merlot stock wine, “Casillero del Diablo”, while the guide showed and explain the methodology and materials used in the production of the wine. In order to know the old facilities and to be witness of the legend, Concha y Toro Vine offer a cup of Cabernet Sauvignon “ Casillero del Diablo” the wine that made famous the Chilean wine.

Santa Rita Vineyard

Afterwards we’ll continue our trip towards Santa Rita vineyard, where we’ll be able to visit its warehouses and taste its best wines.
Viña Santa Rita´s wine cellar, was founded in 1880 by Domingo Fernández Concha. For its construction, they brought french tecnology. In this wine cellar french and american oak were used, here the wine take the complex and the body with a taste of wood and a smooth and delicate smell. The park is permanently being maintained and cared for by 15 gardeners. Santa Rita's fertile lands rightly rank among the company's most valuable assets. Carefully selected, Santa Rita's vineyards are located in the best Chilean wine growing lands with the aim to achieve the best quality wine that Chile can produce.

We’ll have the opportunity to lunch in the famous restaurant “Doña Paula” (on behalf of the passengers),
currently a national monument was named after Paula Jaraquemada, owner of hacienda Santa Rita's manor house over 200 years ago. At that time, a number of historical events related to the independence of Chile took place here. Bernardo O'Higgins, the general who achieved independence for Chile, and 120 soldiers took shelter here after fighting the Spanish crown forces. Santa Rita's most famous range of products is called "120" in homage to these patriots.