Casablanca Valley Wineries Guide

Founded in 1993 by the Italian-rooted Cuneo family, Casas del Bosque is a boutique, family-owned winery in the Casablanca Valley — about 70 km from Santiago and 40 km from Valparaíso, just 18 km from the coast. Their single 134-hectare estate is planted entirely with cool-climate varieties (Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Noir, Syrah, Malbec and Cabernet Franc), with granite-derived soils from ancient marine sediment giving the wines their distinctive character.

The winery produces around 1.3 million litres a year, exporting to more than 50 countries. Beyond wine, Casas del Bosque is known as one of Chile's top tourism destinations, offering vineyard tours, tastings and its acclaimed Tanino restaurant, and has repeatedly ranked among the World's Best Vineyards to visit.

This winery is included in our Wine & Dine Tour.

Bodegas RE is a small, family-run winery in the Casablanca Valley, founded in 2008 by Pablo Morandé Lavín — the winemaker credited with discovering Casablanca's potential in 1982 and creating Chile's iconic Don Melchor — together with his children Piedad and Pablo. Rooted in generations of winemaking tradition from the Cauquenes area of the Maule Valley, the family's concept is built around "REcreating, REinventing and REvealing" ancestral winemaking, using the family's antique clay maulina jars alongside giant concrete amphorae they redesigned from that same ancestral model, blending old techniques with modern winemaking knowledge.

In 2023 the Morandé family partnered with entrepreneur José Crispi, whose own family has a century-long winemaking history in Chile, to help expand the RE brand internationally.

The winery is also notable for its passive, low-energy design: earth-covered perimeter walls planted with vines and olive trees keep the underground cellar naturally stable at 14–16°C year-round with no mechanical heating or cooling, grapes and must move by gravity rather than pumps, fermentation happens in spherical vats without refrigeration, and the estate relies on rainwater irrigation and natural, environmentally-approved treatments in the vineyard.

You can visit this winery with our Classic Wine Tour.

Matetic Vineyards traces back to Jorge Matetic Cetinja, who emigrated from Croatia to Chile in 1892; the family (with roots also in Asturias, Spain) planted its first vineyards in 1999 in the Rosario Valley — a cool-climate coastal valley between Casablanca and San Antonio — where they pioneered growing Syrah. Their debut 2001 EQ Syrah became Chile's first cool-climate Syrah, launching a winery built on four core values: respect, innovation, excellence and sustainability.

The estate transitioned to organic and biodynamic farming starting in 2002, earning full Demeter biodynamic certification across its 160 hectares by 2013, and built a gravity-flow winery (2003) using natural stone and wood from the region, alongside the boutique "La Casona" hotel for wine tourism (2004).

The wines have drawn major international recognition over the years — a Wine Spectator Top 100 listing (2006), repeated Wine & Spirits Top 100 Winery honors, a 97-point James Suckling score with a Top 100 world wines placement (2016), and a 98-point "Best Red Wine of the Year" nod from Tim Atkin (2018) — cementing Matetic's reputation as one of Chile's leading cool-climate, biodynamic producers.

Kingston's story began in 1906, when Carl John Kingston left Michigan's Upper Peninsula for Chile chasing rumors of gold. He never found it, but he and his wife Caroline ended up with a cattle ranch in the hills of Casablanca, just 12 miles from the Pacific. The ranch stayed in the family for generations — including a son who, as family lore has it, graduated Harvard on a Wednesday, married on Thursday, and sailed for Chile on Friday — until the 1990s, when a new generation (Courtney Kingston, while at Stanford business school) reimagined the cattle farm as an organic vineyard in Casablanca's far western hills.

Today, five generations after Carl John's arrival, Kingston is a boutique, family-run winery known for hands-on, sustainable winemaking and artisan viticulture along Chile's cool coastal terroir. It has been recognized as a "First Growth" by Master of Wine Tim Atkin and named a 2021 Forbes "Small Giant." The family also supports nonprofit causes in Chile and the U.S. focused on education, healthcare and economic opportunity, reflecting a community-minded ethos alongside the winemaking.

Loma Larga is a family-run winery on a single estate in the Casablanca Valley, tracing its winegrowing roots to the 19th century, when the Díaz Santelices family's great-grandfather brought French vine strains to Chile from Bordeaux and Paris — the family even showcased their wines at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. The modern winery was founded in 1995 in what was then an undiscovered wine region, after Patricio Díaz, his wife Rosita Santelices, and son Felipe spent five years mapping the estate's soils and climate before planting.

Loma Larga is now recognized as Chile's leading producer of cool-climate red wines, built around its emblematic Cabernet Franc alongside Pinot Noir, Merlot, Malbec and Syrah. The estate works exclusively with its own hand-harvested grapes — no outside fruit, no secondary labels — under winemaker Tamara de Baeremaecker, whose 20+ year career includes stints on some of Chile's top labels (Don Melchor, Terrunyo, Amelia). The winery also emphasizes sustainability and fair labor practices as part of its philosophy.

Founded in 1996 by Pablo Morandé — the first winemaker to plant vines in the Casablanca Valley — Viña Morandé has built its identity around innovation and a "pioneering spirit," recovering Chile's winemaking heritage while exploring new terroirs. The portfolio spans several distinct lines: House of Morandé and Terroir Wines for everyday and site-driven bottlings, Vitis Única and Selección de Viñedos at the premium end, Pionero and Late Harvest, and the more experimental Specialties and Adventure lines — the latter dedicated to reviving century-old, dry-farmed varieties like País and Carignan from Maule's Secano Interior and Itata, using traditional head-pruning methods inherited from Spanish colonization. Morandé also produces a dedicated range of sparkling wines, overseen by founder Pablo Morandé himself as oenological director.

Fruit is sourced across five valleys, each suited to different varieties: cool, ocean-influenced Casablanca for Malbec, Syrah and Cabernet Franc; Maipo — the historic heart of Chilean wine — for structured Cabernet Sauvignon; Maule for old-vine País, Carignan, Grenache and Syrah; the far-south Malleco Valley for cold-climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir; and Itata for vines over 100 (and in some plots, over 130) years old, including ungrafted, head-trained Cabernet Sauvignon and Cinsault. On the winemaking side, Morandé was a pioneer of high-density planting in Chile (2004), reintroduced large oak casks, uses concrete-egg fermentation, and has experimented with frozen-grape wines and grappa-style spirits — all under current winemaking director Ricardo Baettig.