santa rita winery

We had some trouble finding the winery but when we arrived, we warmly welcomed despite our late arrival for our tour. Very nice, knowledgable guide. Lovely winery with much to offer as far as wine shop and dinning facilities. We very much enjoyed the wines we tasted, too!

Super setting fantastic tour. I've been on many wine tours since I teach home wine making and this was the best tour ever. Hope you get Pablo as a guide. Perfect mix of knowledge, stories and humor. The museum has an icredible amount of pre columbian artifacts. The gardens are beautiful , the staff friendly. The restaurant looked up scale but we ran out of time.

Perfect summer's day activity! A leisurely bicycle ride of about 8 kilometers visiting various parts of the winery, culminating in a wine tasting on the verandah of the winery overlooking a formal garden. Lovely day and lovely memories!

We had a small group your with a funny, knowledgable tour guide who showed us the complete operation. The volume of wine that is produced is amazing! You get to taste 3 wines and keep the glass. A nice souvenir that actually survived the flight home.We started with lunch in the dining room. The food was very good and the waiter knowledgeable. After our tour, we bought a bottle and enjoyed it outside in the garden.

We spend the day at the Santa Rita winery . The tour was quite good and the tour leader Maria's did a nice job. The tour was however large and at times hard to hear. It would have been better if the tour was in half, with 2 guides , meeting in the taxing room for the finale. Nice wines and inexpensive. Good lunch. There is a great museum of Chilean artifacts which is well worth the visit

The tour is good because you get to see the whole operation. Got to taste 3 different wines.really enjoyed the exhibit vineyard near the ticket office which has lots of different varieties of grapes. They were about a month from picking so you can pick some of the grapes and taste them. The building are nice to wander through, nice wine shop and back garden area is very nice. You can get food and drink and sit on the back porch. There is also a museum of chilean items but we didn't have time to visit.

This was my second visit to Santa Rita winery. This time I brought a friend from the USA, so we took the tour in English. The guide was very knowledgeable, funny and open to answer every question about the wine making process. You will get to see and taste the grapes at the beginning and the wine at the end. The winery is located in a historic place, which adds a bit of mystique to the tour. With the Classic tour you get to taste 3 different wines and with the Premium tour those wines are the top of the line. The wine tasting is very educational. The tour ends at the Wine Shop, where you can find every different label the Winery produces, and all sort of accessories for your wining activities. I strongly advice to make reservations for the restaurant, with typical Chilean food, very well done and with top service. You will find that the prices in the wine list are the same than the prices in the wine shop, so it is a great opportunity to try the Premium wine. If you have the time, go, all in all you'll need about 5 hours, considering the driving, the tour and lunch.

The tour is erfectly structured and interesting. Our guide was polite and with enouh enthusiasm. You should consider arriving at least half hour before the tour begins to take time to visit their good chilean museum collection. There is also a nice small shop at the museum with great alpaca shawls , scarfs and hats. Excellent and orginal shopping . And don't forget to make reservations to have lunch at Dona Paula restaurant and make the afternoon complete.

It's a very big winery, very nice, we took the walking tour wich was very good they showed us the whole procedure of there winery to make there wine and the staff where polite.

As a Winery Owner the staff at Santa Rita did a beautiful job as they led my friends thru a Blending of Wine.They learned how to Blend, Cork the Bottle, Wax the Top and Imprint into the Wax. The facility is beautiful with Lavender and the Sunken Garden. The retail center is spacious. The Lunch was Chicken Salad on Avocado. The main course was Salmon on's bed of greens. Dessert Was Ice Cream on a Pastry Spiral and a Caramel Sauce. The wines served were a Tropical Aroma Chardonnay and a Dark Berry Cabernet Sauvignon.A Great Experience

That´s one of the best winery tours we had on our one week stay in Santiago. Santa Rita winery is strongly recommended if you have the time to go a bit further from the city. Way better than the visito to the traditional ones close to santiago. The view by the mountains is amazing. At the winery they have a restaurant, Dona Paula, that is also amazing, i already reviewed it. The tour was great, we got to eat grapes, see the production taking place, the barrels where they keep their good wines and got to taste 3 wines. The tour guide was so nice, he even found other 2 wines from other tour and let us taste it also, they were their premium tour wines. I strongly recommend going there and having lunch at their restaurant, it will be an unique experience.

We had some difficulty trying to find out how to get to the winery on our own from Santiago, but eventually we were able to sort out how to go by public transportation. Our return to Santiago was more difficult because the winery knew nothing about the times of trains from Buin.We had reserved a tour in English, but on arrival there was some brief confusion about who would be our guide. Our tour guide was very repetitious, seemed rather bored, and at the end, rushed us through the tasting. There was no bread, not even a cracker, to nibble on between the different wines. There was no water to use to rinse out our wine glasses.Overall, the young staff were unprofessional and uninvolved.We had visited wineries in Mendoza, Argentina, the week before, and the tours there were so much better.

We booked a tour of this winery at our hotel. The pick up bus was a trifle later than had been anticipated and we had to wait in a a parking lot to be transferred to another minibus bound for that specific winery; however, the guide did not really know what was happening so there was some confusion as to which shuttle went where. Things improved greatly once on the right shuttle bus. Andrea, the guide was knowledgeable about the history of wine making in Chile. Upon arrival, we were directed to Matias who really knew about the winery, the grapes, the terroir etc... He made the tour very enjoyable as well as informative, but, the three minute film we were shown was over sentimental and a bit gauche. The tasting at the end of the tour was rewarding. Three wines were on offer, an organic white wine, a young reserve Cabernet sauvignon and a more mature Gran Reserve Cabernet ; however, if you want to taste more interesting wines, you have to pay about USD 4 for a glass in the upstairs shop. There is a pre- Colombian museum on the premises which we skipped in favor of a glass of Carmenere, The setting of the vineyard is beautiful with the Andes in the background and blooming bougainvillea. On the whole, we would do this again but the bus transfers would need to be better organized.

I decided to visit the vineyard on my last day in Santiago. We didn't have a reservation but we took chances. We went on our own by metro and taxi. It was too far and expended 15000 pesos from the metro to get there by taxi. But at the end it was all worth it. We took a tour in Portuguese and the tour guide was very nice. I forgot his name :( Rafael I believe. I loved the vineyard more than concha y toro. I really had a feeling of a real vineyard. Congratulations...

We had a perfect visit at Santa Rita winery, The scenery was captivating , at the foot of the Andes mountains in the Maipo valley. The winery itself was beautiful . The guide who escorts you around was very informative. The wine cellar is one of the oldest in Chile. Their wines are exquisite ,all of them including Carmenere , which was a real treat. This was our second visit here. The gift shop is very good,