7-days Unique Experience Visiting The Best Chilean & Argentinean Wine Valleys!

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival at Santiago - City Tour

Stop At: Santiago, Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region
Arrival at Santiago International Airport. Upon arrival, meet with your driver who will transfer you to your hotel.
During the afternoon, your tour begins with a walking tour with a local guide (approximately 2.5 hours). You’ll discover more about the city that was founded in 1541 by the Spaniard, Pedro de Valdivia, and has experienced a turbulent history filled with native conflicts, floods and earthquakes. Head to the Plaza de Armas, the heart of the city and home to the cathedral. Next, take the cable car to the top of Cerro San Cristobal for the best view of the city. Finishing the tour in the bohemian Bellavista neighborhood.

Duration: 4 hours

No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight at Solace Hotel

Day 2: Full day Visit to Casablanca Valley

Stop At: Casablanca, Casablanca, Valparaiso Region
After breakfast at your hotel, you have the opportunity to visit Bodegas Re. This vineyard has preserved its ancestors’ clay vessels from the Maule Valley and still produces a number of their wines within them, demonstrating that it is still possible to make excellent wines using ancient techniques and modern knowledge. Next visit the Indomita vineyard and enjoy Lunch at its restaurant where local chef mixes traditional culinary techniques with innovation and uses local ingredients in his dishes. Finally, transfer back to Santiago.

Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight at Solace Hotel

Day 3: Full Day Visit to Maipo Valley

Stop At: Maipo Valley, Maipo Valley, Santiago Metropolitan Region
This morning drive to Las Vertientes in the heart of the Maipo Canyon. Our first stop will be at Haras de Pirque Vineyard for a visit to this unique winery. The property – today covering 600 hectares – gently ascends the lower slopes of a spur of the Andes Mountains. The visit will include a tasting of premium wines.
Continue to Santa Rita Winery,
After lunch at Doña Paula Restaurant, guided tour through grape variety garden, vineyards, winemaking and cellaring process, and bottling process, visiting “Bodega 1” – the winery’s first cellar and the “Cellar of the 120 Patriots”, where you will discover the exciting story that gives 120 its name. The tour ends with a tasting of Reserva and Gran Reserva wines, with a free souvenir engraved wineglass. You will also receive free entry to the Museo Andino .

Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight at Solace Hotel

Day 4: Departure Santiago - Mendoza

Stop At: Mendoza, Mendoza, Province of Mendoza, Cuyo
After breakfast you are met at your hotel and transferred to Santiago’s Airport for your departure flight. (Flight Santiago Mendoza not included)
When arriving at El Plumerillo airport, we will take you to the Hotel. In the afternoon, you will have time at leisure to visit the city.

Duration: 30 minutes

No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight at Huentala Hotel


Day 5: Full Day to Uco Valley

Stop At: Valle de Uco, Tupungato Argentina
Early in the morning we will meet the specialized wine guide who will accompany us throughout the tour. We will depart to Mendoza’s agricultural oasis of Valle de Uco, 100 kms from Mendoza City. Inside the first mountainsides of the Andes’ foothills, the Uco valley presents the highest altitudes at which wines are produced in the province of Mendoza. We will visit two wineries and enjoy a wine tasting session, during which we will begin to familiarize ourselves with the local’s wines, and its elaboration process.
Our guide will explain us the technique of wine tasting, wine production techniques, the importance of the cork in the bottle and the correct way to handle a glass in order to taste wine.
At noon we will have lunch at a recognized restaurant in a winery, enjoying a gourmet menu. As the sun sets behind the Andes Mountains, we’ll return to Mendoza City.
*Note: Visits to wineries and lunch are subject to be modified, maintaining always the best quality of the service.

Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight at Huentala Hotel

Day 6: Full Day to Andes Mountains

Stop At: Uspallata, Uspallata, Province of Mendoza, Cuyo
Come with us and experience the immensity of the Andes range, be amazed by the outstanding panoramic views. Walk along the Panamericana route through places of serene beauty such as Potrerillos and Uspallata. We then arrive at Puente del Inca with its fascinating geological shapes and thermal springs. From here we enter the Aconcagua Provincial Park and the Horcones lagoon with imposing views of Aconcagua Peak. We continue our trip to Las Cuevas, the last Argentine village before the border with Chile.
ALL THIS WILL BE POSSIBLE IF CLIMATE CONDITIONS ALLOWS IT BY THIS TIME OF THE YEAR.

Duration: 10 hours

Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight at Huentala Hotel

Day 7: Mendoza, Departure Transfer

Stop At: Mendoza, Mendoza, Province of Mendoza, Cuyo
Transfer to the local airport to board your next flight.
Duration: 30 minutes

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.