The Chilean Wine Country
After a jam packed three days we are back at the airport headed to the Atacama desert. Due to our flight issues the other day we left the airport at 4:45 (2 hours before our flight) and arrived at the airport with plenty of time to spare, no more missing flights for us.
The last you heard from us we had spent our first afternoon in the Colchagua wine valley. We had a great full day there. We ended up doing a tasting at Vina Montes, an awesome lunch and wine tour at Vina Viu Manenet, and another tasting at Montgras. The Colchagua valley is really known for it's red wines, the biggest production being Carmenere. The whole place is great. We ended our day by stopping at the museum and then heading over to the casino (we ended up winning about $60, helped pay for the wine we bought).
Vina Montes. The building was gorgeous, super modern and they told us, very feng shui.
The view from Montes up to the hills. It was the first vineyard to grow grapes up the side of the mountain, apparently the other vineyards thought they were "loco."
The barrel room. They play a recording of chanting monks, believing that it makes the wine better.
We had an amazing lunch at Viu Manent. Pumpkin is in season right now :) so I had an incredible Pumpkin soup and then an awesome steak. We went bug on lunch (thankfully because once again only 2 restaurants town were open for dinner).
Horse carriage tour through Viu Manent.
Tasting Sauvignon Blanc out of the steel tank.
The gorgeous tasting room, love the wall of bottles.
A common Chilean fireplace, they are really incredible, it's basically a slow burning heater.
Vina Montgras
Looking down in to the tasting room
We ended up doing our tasting in front of the fire, perfect way to end the afternoon.
At the museum, apparently it's the best in Chile because of all if the artifacts it has.
We headed to Vina del Mar and Valparaiso the next morning and using google maps we decided to ignore one of it's directions, which led us int a dirt road (we assumed it was wrong) so we invented our own way to wrap back around to the highway and here's a glimpse of our route. We learned that in Chile, Always follow google maps, because you'll never know what you'll encounter on your own.
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