Wine regions of Chile: Maipo Valley
Chile’s oldest wine region.
The Maipo Valley is home to Chile’s oldest winemaking tradition. It was here, in the late 16th century, that Jesuit missionaries founded Santiago, the country’s capital city and a location that straddles the Maipo River. The missionaries soon planted vines in their mission gardens and began making wine for use in religious services. In 1740, Don Baltazar Reyes bought some land on the eastern edge of Santiago and established what would become Chile’s first commercial winery: Santa Ana (now owned by Concha y Toro).
The Maipo Valley is only half an hour from Santiago and its… Read more