Chile Wine Tour from the Chile specialist tour operator from the UK.

Day 1 – Fly UK to Chile

Day 2 – Santiago.
Meet and greet at the Airport and transfer to the Hotel.
After check into the Hotel, spend the remainder of the day relaxing after your flight or wandering around the local area.

Day 3 – Santiago (B/L)
Sightseeing through the city, including the pre-Columbian Museum and calling at alocal restaurant for lunch.
The Ambrosia Restaurant is located just behind of the “Colorada House” where the Santiago Museum is now and was built at the end of the XVIII century. The restaurant brings to the visitors a delicious Chilean menu accompanied by the best Chilean wines.
Returning to the hotel, we visit San Cristobal Hill for a panoramic view of the city, where you can enjoy a wine tasting at the Camino Real Restaurant and then descend on a funicular railway, to finally continue drive back to the Hotel Note: Museums are closed on Monday.

Day 4 – Santiago – Cooking session (B-L)
Concha y Toro vineyard is one of the most important in the Maipo Valley and it has a “Wine tasting centre” in Santiago, where the perfect alliance between traditional Chilean Cuisine and wine are a highlight. Each dish is carefully cooked with ingredients, flavours and bouquet to enhance the wine.
You will see the preparation of 3 dishes for tasting, accompanied and guided by the chef.
Each dish is accompanied by wines from Concha y Toro vineyard, beginning with Sauvignon Blanc, continuing with a Merlot and ending with Late Harvest, accompanied by the services of an experienced sommelier
After lunch, you will visit the Boutique Vineyard, Aquitania. It was founded in 1990 in the “Quebrada de Macul” - historically the heart of the Maipo valley vineyards - at the foot of the Andean cordillera, near the city of Santiago.

Day 5 – Santiago and Colchagua valley (B)
The Colchagua Valley is located approximately 130 km (81 mi) south of Santiago and is typical of Central Chile’s east-west (Andes to the Pacific) transversal valleys. It is different from the others because of its two spurs of the Andes Mountains, continuous chains from the Northern Mountains and the Southern Mountains, separated by 35 km (22 mi), which naturally defines its basin, generating a corridor between the mountains and the sea, which is unique within the rest of Chile’s central zone.
Another of its particular geographic characteristics is that the Coastal Mountains that face the Colchagua Valley are very low, less than 500 m (1,640 ft), which allows cold air from the Pacific Ocean to enter the interior of the valley. The Andes Mountains are very high, averaging 4700 m (15,400 ft) and are snow-capped during much of the year.
The distance between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Mountains through the Colchagua Valley is just 120 km (75 mi), which creates unique weather conditions and generates a very special climate.
We will visit two wineries belonging to the Colchagua valley wine route with wine tasting in each one. After checking in to the Hotel, you could visit the Colchagua museum.

Day 6 – Colchagua and Maule valleys (B-L)
Today you sample the grapes of the Maule Valley, which is approx. 2 hours from Colchagua. The Maule Valley lies in the most southerly part of Chile's Central Valley and boasts the country's largest area of vineyards. With a long wine-making tradition which dates back to the times of the Spanish colonisation, today this region has over 30 thousand hectares of vine plantations.
After a tasting at the Wine Shop of the Maule we visit the Tabonko vineyard where a local guide will explain the wine process, you can visit the exclusive wine cellar and be part of the wine tasting.
Lunch will be at a local restaurant, where the flavours of the local Chilean dishes are remarkable.
During the afternoon you return to Santa Cruz for overnight.

Day 7 – Colchagua Valley and Santiago (B-L)
The Hacienda Lolo is in the heart of Colchagua, 32 Kilometers from Santa Cruz, where you will have lunch at the farm’ s restaurant eating the characteristic dishes of this area of Chile, accompanied by wines from the Colchagua Valley. Afterwards you will be driven back to Santiago to overnight.

Day 8 – Santiago (B)
Appropriately timed transfer to Santiago’s International Airport for your return flight to the UK.

Tour cost includes:
Santiago: Private transfer airport/hotel/airport with guide
Lunches mentioned in the above itinerary
Private city tour, including museum – Lunch & wine tasting
Wine tour and tasting as part of a larger group
Private transfer to Colchagua Valley with guide
Accommodation in hotel mentioned (or similar) in Standard room with buffet breakfast
Santa Cruz: Wine tour and tasting as part of a larger group
Museum entrance fee – not guided
Private transfer to Maule Wine Route with guide – wine tour and tasting as part of a larger group
Lunches mentioned in the above itinerary
Accommodation in hotel mentioned or similar in Standard room with buffet breakfast
Private transfer to Santiago with Lunch at Hacienda Lolol
Note: Visited wineries are subject to confirmation and similar alternatives may be substituted.
Tour cost does not include:
International airfares; holiday/medical insurance; Any other service not mentioned as included in above itinerar, such as meals, tips, personal expenses, etc.