Cousiño Macul Vineyard wine tasting tour from Santiago

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Duration5h

GroupUp to 2

LanguagesPT · ES

PickupAt your hotel

Step inside a cellar from 1870 where the wine stays perfectly chilled all year round

A half-day wine tasting tour from Santiago takes you to Cousiño Macul Vineyard in the Maipo Valley with hotel pickup, a local guide, and tastings of wines aged in the estate's historic cellar. The winery, founded in the 19th century and still operated by the Cousiño family after six generations, sits on the property where French architects built a limestone and brick cellar seven meters deep with a passive ventilation system that maintains 14°C and 75% humidity year-round. Morning and afternoon departures are available; the tour runs about five hours.

Step-by-step itinerary

Visit Cousiño Macul Vineyard and Cellar

Meet local guide in Santiago
Travel to Cousiño Macul Vineyard
Explore 19th century cellar architecture
Learn about passive ventilation system
Taste traditional Chilean wines

The Experience

The cellar itself is the reason to come. Built in 1870 by French architects commissioned by Luis Cousiño, it sits at the center of the property and works like a machine: double walls with air flowing between them, no electricity needed, just the physics of limestone, brick, sand and egg white mixed together to hold a constant temperature and humidity that lets wine mature exactly as it should. The basement goes seven meters down. This is not a modern climate-controlled room—it is a 19th-century engineering feat that still outperforms most wineries built today, and you walk through it.

Your guide is local and speaks Spanish or Portuguese, and the tasting happens inside the cellar or in the rooms around it. You taste the wines the vineyard produces, and the guide walks you through what you are tasting and why the place matters to Chilean wine history. Cousiño Macul is the only major Chilean vineyard founded in the 1800s still in the hands of the family that built it—six generations have run it. That continuity is not common, and it shapes how the place operates: this is not a tourist facility grafted onto a working winery, it is the winery itself, and the tour moves at the pace of someone showing you their family's work.

Hotel pickup and drop-off are included, so you do not arrange transport into the Maipo Valley. The tour runs five hours total. You can choose a morning or afternoon departure depending on when your day allows. Bring an ID if you are drinking—the minimum age is 18. Public transportation options exist nearby if you prefer to meet the group at the vineyard instead.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and drop-off.
a local guide speaking Spanish or Portuguese.
wine tasting inside the historic cellar.
access to tour the vineyard and the 1870 cellar built by French architects.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyPublic transport nearbyInfants must sit on laps

Operated by TAC Turismo

Is this one for you?Choose the morning departure if you want the vineyard before the afternoon heat, or the afternoon service if your morning is already booked. Either way, the five-hour window means you see the cellar, taste the wine and return to Santiago in one half-day without splitting your itinerary.