The best wine tours from Santiago for most visitors are the wineries’ own tours in the Maipo Valley, 30 to 60 minutes from the city: Santa Rita for its grounds and history, Undurraga for fixed English departures, Cousiño Macul when you only have a morning, and Pérez Cruz for a smaller estate with serious reds. Each costs CLP 25,000-50,000 (about USD 26-53) per person.
If you’d rather someone else did the driving, which after a tasting is the sensible choice, small-group and private operators cover the same valleys from about USD 135 per person, and they are the only realistic way to see Casablanca or Colchagua in a day. Every price below comes from the winery’s or operator’s own booking page, checked in September and October 2026.
This page compares tours rather than valleys. For the valleys themselves, how tasting formats work and why Chilean wine tastes the way it does, see our complete guide to wine tours from Santiago.
The best wine tours from Santiago at a glance
| Best for | Tour | Where | Price per person | Getting there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A full day with history and gardens | Santa Rita, Clásico | Alto Jahuel, Buin | CLP 31,000 (USD 33) | A driver, or bus and taxi |
| A short visit inside the city | Cousiño Macul, Traditional | Peñalolén, eastern Santiago | CLP 25,000 (USD 26) | Ride-hail or taxi |
| Guaranteed English at a fixed hour | Undurraga, Sibaris | Talagante | CLP 29,500 (USD 31); English 10:00 and 15:00 | A driver, or bus and taxi |
| The famous name, by Metro | Concha y Toro, Visita Guiada Premium | Pirque | CLP 50,000 (USD 53), 2 hours | Metro Line 4 and a colectivo |
| A smaller estate and serious reds | Pérez Cruz, Tour Limited | Huelquén, Paine | CLP 42,000 (USD 44), 90 minutes | Car or driver |
| Something different | Pérez Cruz, Tour en Bicicleta | Huelquén, Paine | CLP 50,000 (USD 53), about 5 km by bike | Car or driver |
| An evening rather than a day | Concha y Toro, Diablo Wine Sunset | Pirque | CLP 60,000 (USD 63), 3.5 hours | Sold with an Uber option |
| Small producers, nobody driving | Bodega Wine Tours, Maipo | Two small wineries | From USD 135, up to 7 guests | Organized |
| A private car and guide | TourEvo, Maipo half day | Concha y Toro and Santa Rita | USD 168, 09:30-14:30 | Hotel pickup |
| White wine and the coast | Bodega Wine Tours, Casablanca | Casablanca Valley | From USD 145 | Organized |
Winery prices checked September 2026 (Santa Rita, Cousiño Macul, Undurraga) and October 2026 (Concha y Toro, Pérez Cruz, the operators). Dollar figures use about CLP 950 to the US dollar.
If you only take one line from that table: book Santa Rita for a full day, Cousiño Macul for a short one, and an operator for anything beyond the Maipo.
How these tours were chosen
Four tests, applied in this order.
- Is the price published by the winery or operator itself, and does it hold up? Every tour here has a price on its own booking page. Tours that only appear on resale platforms, with prices that move around, are left out.
- Can you get there and back without anyone driving after a tasting? A tour that only works with a rental car fails this test for most visitors, because Chile’s drink-driving limit is close to zero.
- Does it show you something? A cellar, a vineyard, a person who makes the wine, a building worth the trip. A pour in a shop does not count.
- Is it good value against the other options on this list? Not cheap, necessarily. Good value.
Tours that failed one of those tests, including a couple that look excellent on paper, are in the section on tours to skip further down.
Should you book the winery’s own tour or an organized one?
Book the winery’s own tour if you’re visiting one Maipo estate and can handle a Metro ride and a colectivo or a ride-hail: it costs a fraction of an organized tour. Book an operator for two or more wineries, for Casablanca or Colchagua, or when nobody in your group wants to navigate.
The three ways of doing it, side by side:
| Winery’s own tour, your own transport | Small-group operator | Private driver-guide | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Example | Concha y Toro, Visita Guiada Premium | Bodega Wine Tours, Maipo | TourEvo, Maipo half day |
| Price per person | CLP 50,000 (USD 53) plus transport | From USD 135 | USD 168 |
| Wineries | One | Two small producers | Two big estates |
| Who else is there | The winery’s tour group | Up to 7 guests | Your party only, 1 to 4 people |
| Transport | Metro Line 4 and a colectivo | Organized | Hotel pickup and return |
| Best for | Budgets, flexible schedules, one estate done properly | Learning about small producers | Couples and families who value time over money |
The do-it-yourself route works well in exactly two places. Pirque, where Concha y Toro sits, is a Metro ride on Line 4 to Plaza de Puente Alto and then a colectivo hop of about 10 minutes (checked September 2026). Cousiño Macul is in Peñalolén, inside the city, and a ride-hail from Providencia or the center is the shortest trip to any winery on this list. Isla de Maipo, home to De Martino and Tarapacá, is reachable by bus from Terminal San Borja beside Estación Central, though the wineries are spread out once you arrive. Our guide to getting around Santiago covers the Metro, which takes contactless bank cards, and the buses, which still need a bip! card.
It works badly everywhere else. Santa Rita and Undurraga are a bus plus a taxi, which is fine on the way out and awkward on the way back. Pérez Cruz in the Alto Maipo foothills needs a car. Casablanca and Colchagua have no practical public transport between wineries at all.
The real argument for an operator is not convenience but sobriety. Someone has to get you home, and on a day with two tastings that person should not be you.
The winery tours worth booking
Five estates, ranked by how well they reward the trip from Santiago.
1. Santa Rita: the best full day
The tour: Clásico, CLP 31,000 (about USD 33; checked September 2026). Longer formats and a restaurant lunch are available on the day.
Santa Rita at Alto Jahuel, in the commune of Buin, is the estate that gives you the most for your day. The colonial casona with its long veranda is a Chilean national monument, the 19th-century park around it is the finest winery garden near Santiago, and the Museo Andino on the estate holds a serious collection of pre-Columbian and Mapuche art: ceramics, textiles and silver. The Clásico tour gets you the vineyard, the cellars and a tasting; the rest of the estate is why you stay for lunch.
It’s also the hardest of the big four to reach without a car. That makes it the estate where a driver earns their fee, and the one where an operator’s half-day tour (TourEvo pairs it with Concha y Toro) makes sense even for travelers who would otherwise go it alone.
Book it if you have a whole day and want the estate as much as the wine. Skip it if you have a morning and a flight.
2. Cousiño Macul: the best short visit
The tours: Traditional, CLP 25,000 (about USD 26); Premium, CLP 40,000 (about USD 42; both checked September 2026).
Cousiño Macul is the cheapest of the four big Maipo names and the only one you can reach as easily as a museum. It sits in Peñalolén on the eastern edge of the city, with its historic cellars and what is left of a vineyard the city grew around. You can take a morning tour, be back in Providencia for lunch, and still have the afternoon.
The Traditional tour is the better buy. The Premium costs 60% more for better wines, which is worth it only if you already know you like the house style.
Book it if wine is one item on a busy itinerary, or it’s your last morning in the city. Skip it if you want vineyards stretching to the mountains, because here the backdrop is suburb as much as Andes.
3. Undurraga: the easiest to plan in English
The tour: Sibaris, CLP 29,500 (about USD 31), with English departures at 10:00 and 15:00 (checked September 2026).
Undurraga at Talagante, southwest of the city, is the least hyped of the big estates and one of the most pleasant: a formal park, a fountain at the entrance and a barrel cellar. Its real selling point for visitors is the fixed English schedule: Undurraga publishes its English hours in advance, which makes it the easiest estate to build a day around if your Spanish is thin.
The 15:00 departure is underrated. It lets you sleep late, have lunch in the city, and still get a proper tour, with the vineyard in the long afternoon light.
Book it if language certainty matters, or you want an afternoon visit. Skip it if you want to go without a car and without changing buses.
4. Concha y Toro: the famous one, at a price
The tour: Visita Guiada Premium, CLP 50,000 (about USD 53), two hours, covering the museum, the park, the Casillero del Diablo cellar and a four-glass tasting (checked October 2026).
Concha y Toro in Pirque is the most visited winery in Chile, and its standard ticket is now the most expensive among the big four, at twice the price of Cousiño Macul’s Traditional tour. You are paying for the name, the 19th-century house and gardens, the Casillero del Diablo legend in the cellar, and the easiest public-transport access of any rural winery near Santiago.
The upgrades are where it gets interesting, because the price differences are steep but not uniform:
| Experience | Price (CLP) | About (USD) | Length | What the extra money buys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visita Guiada Premium | 50,000 | 53 | 120 min | The standard visit, four glasses |
| + Tasting Concha y Toro | 60,000 | 63 | 165 min | Five more glasses for CLP 10,000 |
| + Tasting Marqués de Casa Concha | 80,000 | 84 | 165 min | Six glasses of the better range; the best seller |
| + Maridaje La Gran Barra | 90,000 | 95 | 180 min | A food-and-wine pairing |
| + Almuerzo Bodega 1883 | 100,000 | 105 | 160 min | Lunch at the estate restaurant |
| + Tasting Cellar Collection | 100,000 | 105 | 165 min | Five glasses from the Cellar Collection range |
| Experiencia Nocturna + Cena | 100,000 | 105 | 180 min | An evening cellar visit with dinner |
| Diablo Wine Sunset | 60,000 | 63 | 210 min | Cheese board and the park at sunset |
All checked October 2026 on the winery’s own booking site, which also sells packages with the Valle Nevado ski resort.
The best value on that list is the cheapest upgrade: CLP 10,000 (about USD 11) for five more glasses and 45 more minutes. The Marqués de Casa Concha tasting is the one to choose if you want to understand why the company’s better wines cost what they do. The lunch package is fine but not a bargain, since it effectively prices lunch and one glass at CLP 50,000.
Book it if the Casillero del Diablo story is the point, or you want the simplest trip by Metro. Skip it if you are on a budget or want a conversation with the people who make the wine; a smaller estate gives you more of that for less.
5. Pérez Cruz: the best smaller estate
The tours: Tour Limited, CLP 42,000 (about USD 44), 90 minutes with three wines; Tour en Bicicleta, CLP 50,000 (about USD 53), about 5 km through the vineyards with three wines; Tour Íconos, CLP 100,000 (about USD 105), two hours with the estate’s three top wines, Pircas, Liguai and Quelen; Tour Piedra Seca with brunch, CLP 110,000 (about USD 116), three hours (all checked October 2026).
Pérez Cruz is a family estate in Huelquén, in the commune of Paine, about 40 km south of Santiago where the Alto Maipo vineyards climb toward the Andes. The winery building, a long timber structure designed by the Chilean architect José Cruz Ovalle, is worth the trip on its own, and the wines are Alto Maipo reds made by a winery small enough that the tour feels like a visit rather than a production.
Per glass, it’s not cheap. Three wines for CLP 42,000 is less pour per peso than the big estates offer. What you get instead is the place and the attention. The bike tour is the most fun formula on this list: around 5 km on the estate’s tracks between the vines, the production area and the underground cellars, then the tasting. The opening hours posted on its tour site are Monday to Friday 10:00-18:00, Saturday 10:00-14:00 and Sunday 10:00-15:00, and tours are booked online in advance.
Book it if you have a car or driver and care about the wine more than the brand. Skip it if you need public transport.
Also on the map. Visit Santiago’s wine-tourism page lists more than 40 Maipo wineries by commune, including De Martino, Tarapacá and Santa Ema in Isla de Maipo, Haras de Pirque and El Principal in Pirque, and Aquitania and Santa Carolina in Peñalolén. We haven’t checked their tour prices for this page, but they are the next names to look at once you have done one of the five above.
The organized tours worth booking
Two operators stand out, for different reasons. Both publish prices on their own websites, which makes them easy to compare.
Small groups: Bodega Wine Tours
Bodega Wine Tours caps its groups at seven guests and runs English-speaking tours across more valleys than anyone else here (checked October 2026):
- Maipo, a full day visiting “two small winemaking projects”: from USD 135 per person
- Casablanca: from USD 145
- Aconcagua, three wineries north of Santiago: from USD 145
- Colchagua, run as a private tour: from USD 145
- San Antonio and Leyda, sold as a wine transfer: from USD 175
- Valparaíso, a wine tour or transfer via Casablanca: from USD 135
The Maipo day is the interesting one. Small producers are exactly what you can’t easily reach on your own, and a seven-seat group is small enough for real conversation. The homepage doesn’t spell out inclusions, durations or departure times, so ask before you pay: whether lunch is included, how many wines you’ll taste at each stop, and where pickup is.
Private: TourEvo
TourEvo runs private tours only, for one to four passengers, with a bilingual chauffeur-guide (Spanish, English or Portuguese), premium cars and hotel pickup (checked October 2026):
- Maipo half day, Concha y Toro and Santa Rita: USD 168 per person, 09:30-14:30
- Concha y Toro tour and tasting: USD 168 per person, 09:30-14:30
- Concha y Toro night tour, with the cellar by candlelight, a cheese pairing and stargazing: USD 120 per person, 17:30-22:30
- Colchagua day, Montes Apalta, Viu Manent and the Museo de Colchagua, with lunch: USD 245 per person, 07:30-19:00
- Casablanca and Colchagua, with a five-course pairing lunch: USD 265 per person, 08:30-18:30
The Maipo half day is the strongest product. Concha y Toro and Santa Rita are the two estates hardest to combine by public transport, and putting them in one morning with a driver solves a genuine problem. Two big estates plus the driving in five hours is a brisk pace, though, so ask how long you’ll actually spend at each.
The night tour solves a different problem. Pirque after dark is awkward by public transport, since the Metro stops at 23:00 (checked September 2026) and you’d be relying on a colectivo back to Puente Alto in the dark, so a door-to-door evening is worth paying for if you want the cellar by candlelight.
Questions to ask any operator before paying
- Is the price per person or per vehicle, and does it change with group size?
- Are the winery tour fees and tastings included, and how many wines at each stop?
- Is lunch included? If not, where do you eat and roughly what does it cost?
- How long will you actually spend at each winery, not counting the driving?
- What is the cancellation policy, and what happens if a winery closes that day?
- Is the guide a dedicated English speaker, or is the tour bilingual?
Six questions, answered by email in a day, decide whether the tour is good. An operator who won’t answer them in writing has told you what you need to know.
Which tour fits the wine you like?
The best tour depends less on the winery’s fame than on what you like to drink. Chile’s valleys are different enough that the choice of valley matters more than the choice of estate.
| If you like… | Go to | The tour | Price per person |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cabernet sauvignon and Bordeaux blends | The Maipo | Santa Rita Clásico, or Pérez Cruz Íconos for the top end | CLP 31,000 / CLP 100,000 |
| Sauvignon blanc, chardonnay, pinot noir | Casablanca or San Antonio | Bodega Wine Tours Casablanca, or the Leyda transfer | From USD 145 / from USD 175 |
| Carménère | Colchagua | A night in Santa Cruz, or TourEvo’s Colchagua day | USD 245 for the day tour |
| Syrah and warm-climate reds | Aconcagua | Bodega Wine Tours Aconcagua, three wineries | From USD 145 |
| Small producers and new styles | The Maipo | Bodega Wine Tours Maipo | From USD 135 |
| The story more than the glass | Pirque | Concha y Toro and the Casillero del Diablo | CLP 50,000 |
Red-wine drinkers should stay in the Maipo. The valley’s cabernet is what built Chile’s reputation, and the four big estates plus Pérez Cruz cover everything from everyday reserva to icon wines. Spend the day at one estate properly rather than rushing three.
White-wine and pinot drinkers should head west to Casablanca, an hour from the city on the road to Valparaíso, or further south to San Antonio and Leyda, where the vineyards are close enough to the Pacific to feel the fog. Neither works without a car, which is why operators dominate here.
Carménère lovers need Colchagua, centered on Santa Cruz about two and a half hours south. A day tour gets you there and back; a night in the valley gets you the wine country. If your dates fall in late April or May, that is also when Colchagua picks its carménère, as our guide to the wine harvest season near Santiago explains.
If you like the story more than the glass, go to Concha y Toro, accept the price, and enjoy the theater of the devil’s cellar. Plenty of people do, and it’s a good morning.
The tours to skip
Some popular formats don’t survive an honest look.
Colchagua as a day trip, if you can avoid it. TourEvo’s own site puts Colchagua two and a half hours from Santiago, and its Colchagua day runs from 07:30 to 19:00. That’s roughly five hours in a car for two wineries and a museum. The wineries are among the best in Chile and the tour may well be excellent, but the format shortchanges the valley. One night in Santa Cruz turns the same drive into the best wine trip you can make from Santiago.
Casablanca and Colchagua in one day. Two valleys, one west of the city and one south, in ten hours. You’ll see the inside of a very nice car. Pick one valley and do it properly.
Three or four wineries in a day. Tasting fatigue is real, and the fourth cellar looks like the second. Two is the most a day can hold well, and one done properly beats two in a hurry.
Any tour that won’t tell you its inclusions. If the listing says “wine tour, USD 99” and nothing about tastings, lunch, group size or time at each estate, assume the worst of all four.
Concha y Toro as the only winery you visit, if wine is the point. It’s a fine visit and an easy one, but at CLP 50,000 it is the most expensive standard ticket of the big four and the most polished, least personal experience. Do it for the legend; do something smaller for the wine.
For the wider question of how a wine day sits against Valparaíso, the Andes and the other excursions from the city, see our comparison of day trips from Santiago.
Four sample days that work
Each of these is built from the prices and transport on this page, and each keeps the driving with someone who isn’t drinking, or with nobody at all.
1. Pirque by Metro, a half day. Take Line 1 east to Tobalaba, change to Line 4, and ride it to Plaza de Puente Alto at the end of the line. From there a colectivo takes about 10 minutes to the Concha y Toro gate. Book a late-morning slot of the Visita Guiada Premium, add the CLP 10,000 tasting upgrade if four glasses won’t be enough, and you are back in the city by mid-afternoon. Cost per person: CLP 50,000-60,000 for the visit plus about CLP 1,600 in Metro fares for the round trip, and the colectivo each way.
2. Santa Rita with a driver, a full day. A morning tour at Alto Jahuel, the Museo Andino after it, a long lunch at the estate restaurant and an hour in the park. This is the day that justifies a private driver or an operator’s half day, and the one that most rewards going slowly. Don’t try to add a second winery; the estate is the day.
3. Casablanca on the way to the coast, a full day. With a driver or a tour, leave Santiago in the morning, visit one or two Casablanca wineries before lunch, and continue to Valparaíso for the afternoon. Bodega Wine Tours sells this as a Valparaíso wine tour or transfer from USD 135 per person. It’s the only wine day that doubles as sightseeing, and the best answer for a group that doesn’t all care about wine.
4. Two small producers in a group, a full day. Bodega Wine Tours’ Maipo day, from USD 135 per person, with up to six other guests. Ask which two wineries are on the schedule before you book; the answer tells you whether the day is for you, and a good operator will be happy to explain why it chose them.
What does a wine tour from Santiago cost in total?
For two people, doing it yourself in the Maipo costs CLP 50,000-100,000 (about USD 53-105) in tour fees plus a few thousand pesos in fares or a ride-hail. A small-group day starts at about USD 270 for two, and a private half day with a driver-guide about USD 336. Lunch and bottles come on top.
Here’s how one winery day for two people adds up:
| How you do it | Cost for two | What is included | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cousiño Macul by ride-hail | CLP 50,000 (USD 53) plus two ride-hail trips | Traditional tour and tasting | Suburban setting |
| Concha y Toro by Metro and colectivo | CLP 100,000 (USD 105) plus about CLP 3,300 in Metro fares and the colectivos | Visita Guiada Premium | You navigate; Spanish helps |
| Pérez Cruz with a rental car | CLP 84,000 (USD 88) plus the car and fuel | Tour Limited | One of you does not drink |
| Bodega Wine Tours, Maipo | From USD 270 | Two small wineries with a guide; check the rest | Fixed itinerary, up to 7 guests |
| TourEvo, Maipo half day | USD 336 | Two big estates, hotel pickup, chauffeur-guide | The most expensive per head |
Metro fares are CLP 735-895 per ride depending on the time of day (checked September 2026), so four rides for two people come to about CLP 3,300 at the standard daytime fare. Tour fees as checked September and October 2026.
The extras that change the total:
- Lunch. Estate restaurants are the pleasant option and the expensive one. At Concha y Toro, the lunch package costs CLP 50,000 more than the standard tour.
- Bottles. Every tour ends in a shop, and estate-only wines are the ones worth buying. Budget for at least one.
- Upgrades. Decide in advance. A premium tasting bought on impulse at the counter is how a CLP 25,000 morning becomes a CLP 80,000 one.
For how a wine day fits a whole trip’s budget, see what a trip to Santiago costs.
How far ahead should you book?
A few days ahead for a weekday winery tour, a week or more for a Saturday, and two to three weeks for anything during the late-March harvest peak or a private tour on a fixed date. If you need an English-language slot at a specific hour, book that first; everything else can follow.
The details that matter:
- Winery tours book online. Concha y Toro sells through its own wine-tourism site, Pérez Cruz through its online booking page, and the other estates through their own websites. Book direct; resellers add a margin and put another party between you and the winery if your plans change.
- Weekends fill first, especially in the March and April harvest, when Chilean visitors and festival traffic share the same roads. Our guide to the wine harvest season has the dates that matter.
- Mondays are worth checking. Most of Santiago’s museums close on Monday, and while the wineries keep their own schedules, it’s worth confirming the day before you build a plan around it.
- 18-19 September (Fiestas Patrias) and the big public holidays close or change most things. Don’t plan a winery visit for those days without checking.
- Operators confirm by email. Get the pickup time, the inclusions and the cancellation terms in writing.
Getting home safely, and accessibility
A wine day around Santiago is low-risk, and the real risks are the obvious ones.
Driving. Chile’s drink-driving limit is close to zero and weekend breath tests on the roads back from the valleys are common. If you rent a car, one person does not drink, at all. Better still, let an operator drive or take a ride-hail back; Concha y Toro sells its sunset experience with an Uber transport option for exactly this reason (checked October 2026).
Getting back late. The Metro runs Monday to Friday 06:00-23:00, Saturday 06:30-23:00 and Sundays and holidays 07:30-23:00 (checked September 2026). An evening experience in Pirque that finishes after 21:30 leaves little margin for the colectivo and the ride back, so plan a ride-hail home.
Valuables. Keep your phone and wallet in front pockets on the Metro and at the bus terminals, as you would anywhere in Santiago. The Santiago safety guide covers the common scams.
Accessibility. Most winery tours involve walking on gravel or dirt between the vines, and underground cellars usually mean stairs; at Concha y Toro, the Casillero del Diablo cellar is reached down a flight of steps. Pérez Cruz’s bike tour is obviously not for everyone, and smaller estates can sometimes adapt a visit more readily than the big ones. Ask each winery about step-free routes before you book. Our guide to accessible Santiago covers transport and the city.
Children. Chile’s legal drinking age is 18, so under-18s can’t taste. Whether children can join the walk varies by estate and most booking pages don’t say, so ask. The estates with parks, Santa Rita and Undurraga especially, are the easiest with a family; see our guide to Santiago with kids for the rest of the city.
Once you’ve picked a tour, the Santiago wine tours guide has the background that makes the tasting more interesting: the valleys, the grapes beyond cabernet, and how to buy and ship what you liked.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best wine tour from Santiago for a first-timer?
Santa Rita’s Clásico tour (CLP 31,000, about USD 33) if you have a full day, for the grounds, the national-monument casona and the Museo Andino. Cousiño Macul’s Traditional tour (CLP 25,000) if you have a morning. Concha y Toro if you want the famous name and the easiest Metro access, at CLP 50,000.
How much does a wine tour from Santiago cost?
Winery-run tours cost CLP 25,000-50,000 (about USD 26-53) per person at the big Maipo estates, checked September and October 2026. Organized small-group days start around USD 135 per person, and private tours with a driver-guide run from about USD 168 per person for a Maipo half day.
Can you do a wine tour from Santiago without a car?
Yes, in the Maipo. Concha y Toro is reachable by Metro Line 4 to Plaza de Puente Alto plus a colectivo of about 10 minutes, Cousiño Macul is a short ride-hail inside the city, and Isla de Maipo has buses from Terminal San Borja. Casablanca, Colchagua and Pérez Cruz need a car, a driver or a tour.
Are wine tours near Santiago available in English?
Yes. Undurraga runs fixed English departures at 10:00 and 15:00, TourEvo’s guides speak English, Spanish and Portuguese, and Bodega Wine Tours advertises English-speaking guides. At other estates, check the tour language on the booking page before paying, and ask whether the group is English-only or bilingual.
Is Concha y Toro worth visiting?
For the name, the gardens and the Casillero del Diablo legend, yes. For value, it’s the weakest of the big four: its standard visit costs CLP 50,000 against CLP 25,000-31,000 at Cousiño Macul, Undurraga and Santa Rita. If you go, the CLP 10,000 upgrade for five more glasses is the best value on its menu.
Which is better for a wine tour, the Maipo or Casablanca?
The Maipo for red wine, history and public transport; Casablanca for sauvignon blanc, chardonnay and pinot noir, ideally combined with Valparaíso. The Maipo works as a half day on your own. Casablanca is about an hour away and effectively needs a tour, a car or a driver.
Can you visit a winery on a day trip to Valparaíso?
Yes. Casablanca sits on the highway between Santiago and Valparaíso, and one or two wineries fit into a coastal day if you have a car or a driver. Bodega Wine Tours sells a Valparaíso wine tour or transfer from USD 135 per person (checked October 2026). Without a car, the intercity bus gets you to Valparaíso but not to the wineries’ gates.
How long does a wine tour from Santiago take?
A Maipo half day takes four to five hours door to door; TourEvo’s runs 09:30-14:30, and Concha y Toro’s own standard tour is two hours on site. Casablanca takes most of a day. Colchagua day tours run around 11 hours, which is why an overnight in Santa Cruz is the better plan.
If you’d rather plan the Maipo yourself than book a tour, the valley splits neatly into four areas, each with its own transport: Peñalolén by ride-hail, Pirque by Metro and colectivo, Buin and Paine by train, and Isla de Maipo by bus. Our guide to touring the Maipo Valley covers the wineries on each route, from Aquitania and De Martino to the small producers of Paine, with prices checked in October 2026.
If a coastal day is on the cards, Valparaíso itself deserves more time than most combined wine-and-coast tours allow. On your own by bus you get six to eight hours on the hills, which is why we suggest treating a Casablanca tasting and Valparaíso as separate decisions. Our Valparaíso day trip guide sets out the bus, the walking route and when a tour makes sense.
Sources
- Concha y Toro: wine tourism experiences in Pirque
- Viña Pérez Cruz: tours 2026
- Viña Cousiño Macul
- Viña Santa Rita
- Viña Undurraga
- TourEvo: day-trip wine tours from Santiago
- Bodega Wine Tours
- Visit Santiago: wine tourism in the Maipo Valley
- Chile Travel: Vineyards and grape harvests near Santiago
- Metro de Santiago: fares and hours
- Servicio de Impuestos Internos: dólar observado 2026
Image credits
| Photo | Credit |
|---|---|
| Santa Rita casona (top of page) | Apincheira, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons |
| Viña Undurraga entrance | Viña Undurraga, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons |
| Vineyards in Peñalolén | Richard Espinoza, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons |
| Casillero del Diablo cellar, Concha y Toro | Paulo JC Nogueira, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons |
| Old casks at Concha y Toro | Will, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons |
| Tasting at Concha y Toro | Fsanchezs, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons |
| Undurraga vineyard in autumn | Anna Fiofilova, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons |
| Casas del Bosque, Casablanca | Dumphasizer, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons |
| Viu Manent, Colchagua | Sergio Olivier from Santiago, Chile., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons |