Private Tour: Maipo Valley For Wine Lovers

Itinerary
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Stop At: ISLA DE MAIPO, Isla de Maipo, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

If you are a wine enthusiast, you will enjoy this journey to explore some of the most appreciated wineries at the heart of Maipo Valley, taste its excellent wines and savor the Chilean traditional food. All of it in a single day and just in one town pretty close to Santiago de Chile: Isla de Maipo

Visit some of the most prestigious and ancient wineries combining them with other family owned boutique wineries, where you can discover excellent signature and high expression wines in extensive tastings.

Take a trip to the past of wine by visiting family-run wineries where wine has been produced from generation to generation using traditional methods and be amazed by the innovative design of some of the wineries´ buildings.

Each of the wineries has its singularity that makes it unique. Old traditional wineries full of history, underground mysterious cellars, organic vineyards, modern buildings emerging from a sea of vines...

The tour “Maipo Valley for Wine Lovers” includes at least three wine tours at three of the wineries mentioned bellow guided by an expert in the winery and its wines and also includes extensive tastings in four of them: Tarapacá, De Martino, Terramater, Santa Ema, Undurraga or Los Mesa.

Duration: 8 hours

Stop At: Vina Tarapaca, Fundo El Rosario de Naltahua S/N, Isla de Maipo 8320000 Chile

The 2.600 hectare Isla de Maipo facility, has 600 hectares (1.483 acres) planted to vine. The Tuscan-style manor house in the middle of the property is surrounded by a beautiful park, which reflects the tradition of the winery. The tourists, chilean and foreigners, marvel at the beautiful landscape and surrounding and enjoy the warm hospitality and excellent service.

The Viña Tarapacá complete and exclusive tour includes a visit to the red and white wine fermentation rooms, the Chardonnay cellar with close to 1,500 French oak barrels, the red wine aging cellar with more than 3,500 American and French oak barrels and ends with an extensive tasting in the wine museum.

The tour “Maipo Valley for Wine Lovers” includes at least three wine tours at three of the wineries mentioned bellow guided by an expert in the winery and its wines and also includes extensive tastings in four of them: Tarapacá, De Martino, Terramater, Santa Ema, Undurraga, Laurent, Caviahue or Los Mesa.


Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes

Stop At: De Martino, Manuel Rodriguez 229 Manuel Rodríguez 229, Isla de Maipo, Isla de Maipo 9790129 Chile

The guide will receive you at the main entrance of the Toscana style estate house. There will be a brief introduction to the experience. Then, you will go to the organic vineyard where, with the help of a tasting pit placed among the vines, the guide will explain you the terroir, the singularities of organic production, the process to optimize resources and the different ways to plant the vines in order to produce the best subs with minimum environmental impact. De Martino is the first CO2-free winery in LATAM and the second largest producer of organic wines in Chile. 

Once the process has been explained, you go to the cellars where you will be surprised by the 5000 litres wooden foudres made in Austria by prestigious barrel maker Franz Stockinger. In this area, impeccably arranged in different spaces, you will find modern systems of reception and manual selection of grapes, the fermentation tanks and the bottling and labeling plant. Here a very professional guide will explain you the process that take place in these installations. You will also visit a very special place where they keep old clay anphoras to elaborate wine in the most natural way possible. Very peculiar wines that are being very high valued by wine experts. 

After the tour you will go to the main estate house living room to taste three premium De Martino wines. The guide will talk about its characteristics of each of the wines and will answer all your possible questions. If you really are a wine enthusiast don´t miss this tour that stands out due to its professional focus. It would be hard to find better prepared guides. You will also have the opportunity to taste wines from different terroirs of Chile in the same winery. 
The tour “Maipo Valley for Wine Lovers” includes at least three wine tours at three of the wineries mentioned bellow guided by an expert in the winery and its wines and also includes extensive tastings in four of them: Tarapacá, De Martino, Terramater, Santa Ema, Undurraga, Laurent, Caviahue or Los Mesa.

Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes

Stop At: Vina Santa Ema, Avenida Balmaceda 1950, Isla de Maipo Chile

If anything characterizes the spirit, mission and vision of Vinos Santa Ema, today in the hands of the 4th generation of the Pavone Family, that is the complete and constant commitment to the following fundamental principles:

Respect for the human being
This is made manifest through a considerate treatment and open-door policies towards our workers, which has allowed us to always work as an efficient and united team.

Quality first
This is at the very base of our wines’ excellency and our main goal. Always searching to improve the productive processes.

Care for the environment
We have incorporated the most demanding quality certifications in our productive operations as well as severe safety and sustainability procedures.

Passion for what we do
This expresses itself in the personality of our wines as well as in the stability of the relations with our suppliers, distributors and our community.

The tour “Maipo Valley for Wine Lovers” includes at least three wine tours at three of the wineries mentioned bellow guided by an expert in the winery and its wines and also includes extensive tastings in four of them: Tarapacá, De Martino, Terramater, Santa Ema, Undurraga, Laurent, Caviahue or Los Mesa.

Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes

Stop At: Terramater, Avenida Balmaceda 4900, Isla de Maipo 9800313 Chile

The TerraMater tour is a stroll through our history, wines and traditions.

Walk with us through our estate where you will be able to see vines older than 50 years and also through our variety garden learning more about our exclusive varieties of winemaking grapes. We will visit our wine cellar, our maturation room where we age our wines in oak barrels and our bottling station, to finalize with a tasting flight of 3 of our most representative wines accompanied with an assortment of dried nuts.

The tour “Maipo Valley for Wine Lovers” includes at least three wine tours at three of the wineries mentioned bellow guided by an expert in the winery and its wines and also includes extensive tastings in four of them: Tarapacá, De Martino, Terramater, Santa Ema, Undurraga, Laurent, Caviahue or Los Mesa.

Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes