Concha Y Toro Santiago, Chile Wine Tasting in Maipo Valley

​Concha y Toro is a must visit winery south of Santiago in Maipo Valley. It's about an hour drive from Providencia. The campus is beautiful and the winery grows 26 different variety of grapes. The wine tour started in the vineyard where you can eat and taste the different type of grapes. I didn't get to try all of them but this is a unique experience to a wine tasting tour. Harvest season is March - May so the grapes were almost ready to harvest. We arrived at 10:30am and it was really a nice day out, not too hot, I would say it was around high 70s in Fahrenheit.

Concha y Toro is a must visit winery south of Santiago in Maipo Valley. It's about an hour drive from Providencia. The campus is beautiful and the winery grows 26 different variety of grapes. The wine tour started in the vineyard where you can eat and taste the different type of grapes. I didn't get to try all of them but this is a unique experience to a wine tasting tour. Harvest season is March - May so the grapes were almost ready to harvest. We arrived at 10:30am and it was really a nice day out, not too hot, I would say it was around high 70s in Fahrenheit.

We then tasted their white wine sauvignon blanc called Trio. It was dry with hints of pineapple, apple, and citrus. Very delicious and crisp.

The tour then went on to the barrel rooms, the temperature was nice and cool. The winery stores their barrels in French and American oak, they use the barrel 4 times before they sell them to other businesses or for other usage.

​Next stop on the tour was the Castillo De Diablo (Devils Cellar) which is also what the winery calls its popular brand of wine. The cellar is made of bricks and the mixture to keep it together is a mix of the earth, lime, sand, and egg. Temperature in the Castillo de Diablo is very cool and hardly varies without any air conditioning equipment, 57-60 Fahrenheit with 70-100% humidity.

The most famous part of the cellar is in the back where there was a story of how the cellar got its name. Don Melchor started making wine in 1883 and he stored the wine in his personal cellar. Story is told that when some workers would steal the wine from the cellar the Devil appeared. The rumor spread around the vineyard and workers and it was told that devil watches over the wine stores in the cellar which is where you will see the devil at the end of the cellar.

​Heading back upstairs we went to another tasting room where we tried Terrunyo Cabernet Sauvignon which was a bold red wine but still had blackberry hints and it was very smooth. We also tasted Marques Casa Concha Carmenere which was very acidic, dry, and had more earthiness to it. 

The tour ended at the wine shop where I ended up purchasing a late harvest Sauvignon Blanc. The shop is full of different wines and gifts. Would highly recommend bringing back some items!!! Here are some of the wines from the gift shop.

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