Top 10 Chilean Wineries 2017

Chile is one of the largest wine producers in South America, ranking sixth in the world. A country with excellent climatic conditions for the cultivation of vines, which translates into eight grape varieties.

Precisely thanks to its climate and location, Chile did not suffer from phylloxera, making it one of the few countries in the world with non-grafted vines. It is a country with a great love for wine, and this is reflected in its wines and wineries. Therefore, in this article we present the 10 best Chilean wineries.

1. Errázuriz

147 years ago Don Maximiano Errázuriz founded Viña Errázuriz, an innovative winery located in the Aconcagua Valley. Today it is a fully consolidated winery that positions its wines among the most renowned in the world. Under the slogan 'From the best land, the best wines', they built a winery-history that took more than 14 years to build and which incorporated the greatest technological advances of the time. Today, the winery is still in use and houses a historical wine cellar with more than 400 bottles of each of the most representative wines of the vineyard, with the aim of monitoring and learning about their evolution over the years.

As mentioned above, the winery is located in the Aconcagua Valley, an area with a temperate Mediterranean climate, with a long dry season and concentrated rainfall in winter. The soil is of volcanic origin and the availability of water in the valley makes it an ideal place for the production of wines of the Aconcagua Valley, with a long dry season and concentrated winter rains.