Santa Rita Winery Premium Tour: Discover Chile's Cultural Heritage and Winemaking Traditions
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145 Ratings
Alto Jahuel
Embark on a premium tour of Santa Rita Winery and immerse yourself in Chile's cultural heritage and winemaking traditions. Explore historic monuments, vineyards, and indulge in fine cuisine.
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Vina Santa Rita - For wine-lovers, experienced or beginners, we have created a series of tours where you can learn about and enjoy this fascinating world.

By doing a tour at Santa Rita you will discover, close-up, Chile’s wine roots, the entire wine-making process, you will taste our best wines and take-in all the cultural heritage of the winery in Alto Jahuel.

We are not only wine tours, besides, you could visit the Andean Museum with more than 3.000 pieces of the pre columbian art, walk through the centenary park where is located a beautiful neo-gothic church. Or just taste our plates at our a la carte restaurant, Dona Paula, which has been mentioned by specialized critics as the best restaurant outsider Santiago.

The Premium tour is a walk through the vineyards and varietal garden plus the complete process of making, aging, and bottling the wine, as well as our 19th-century park, gardens, Romans baths, and chapel.

Highlights: Neo-gothic chapel, Roman baths built in the late 1800s, historic cellars.

Tasting: 3 Ultra Premium wines served with cheese, crackers & nuts.

What's Included
  • Explore the Andean Museum at your own pace
  • Experience the journey with a professional guide
  • Stroll through the serene Centenary Park
  • Enjoy a curated wine tasting experience
  • Savor delicious snacks during the tour
  • Receive a commemorative gift glass
  • Sample a variety of alcoholic beverages
What's Not Included
  • Transportation to/from attractions
  • Dona Paula Restaurant
  • Casa Real Hotel
  • Cafeteria La Panaderia
Additional Information

Visiting Santa Rita provides the opportunity for a fascinating journey through Chile’s cultural heritage and the tradition of Chilean wine. Declared a historic monument in 1972 and located in a unique natural setting at the foot of the Andes Mountains, the winery is surrounded by vineyards, historic homes and monuments, and a 19th-century park where you can enjoy the experiences that will make your stay memorable.

We invite you to discover and be amazed by a place that is home to culture, history, the tradition of wine, and the finest cuisine in an exceptional setting.

  • Minimum age is 18 years old for tasting. (Juice tasting under 18 years old)
  • Refunds will not be issued if tour/activity is missed due to late or non-arrival.
  • A maximum of 15 people per tour
Location
Viña Santa Rita
Camino Padre Hurtado
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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V3265jcstever
Apr 8, 2024
a lovely afternoon at Santa Rita - We went with our family on the premium wine tour this afternoon, with the guide Pepe, and had a wonderful experience. Santa Rita is a beautiful colonial site, with wonderful and inspired gardens. We had a delightful guided tour of the grounds. The wine tasting was well organized -- great selection of four wines, and cheese, nuts and crackers to go with it. overall it was a wonderful afternoon
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Gustavomb4897pw
Mar 23, 2024
Surprisingly fantastic - We did the visit in Portuguese and had Cristian as a guide. The visit and the winery were really fantastic. We've already had the opportunity to visit different wineries, but Santa Rita was the best so far. The guide Cristian certainly helped a lot in having this unique experience. I recommend booking a table in advance at the Dona Paula restaurant, to end the day with a flourish. Wonderful food!
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Laurieff4551tx
Feb 27, 2024
Santa Rita Guided Wine Tour and gourmet lunch - My daughter and I had a great time on our tour. Our tour guide was filled with knowledge about Santiago and Chilean wines. The tour was fabulous, the museum really interesting and our lunch was absolutely delicious! I would highly recommend this tour!
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J1671cemarks
Dec 30, 2023
Heaven on earth gardens - Absolutely gorgeous gardens. A charming walk through its views, walking among the trees and getting to know every corner was a beautiful experience, the winery was very well preserved and the tours were very interesting. We had 4 wines. Paired with cheese and crackers.
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Bridget_travel
Dec 3, 2023
A wonderful tour of the Santa Rita winery and historic estate - Thank you to the team at the Santa Rita Winery and especially to my amazing guide Josefa for a truly memorable tour of your beautiful facility. The estate is stunning and the park, with its range of old trees, grotto, lake and chapel, gorgeous. The wine tasting experience was fascinating, and delicious, and I learnt so much about wines and how to taste them. Josefa was a wonderful teacher and I learnt much about the history of Chilean wines. This was has been one of the highlights of my holiday in Chile. I would recommend it unreservedly. A feast for the brain, the eyes and the taste buds!
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W3826nhwilliamb
May 27, 2023
Great - Victor for president!! Great guide and very personable. The vineyard/house/church/etc were so very beautiful, and the wine tasted great. Restaurant filet was on point with a good glass of carmenere. The museum was the icing on the cake, what a day!
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B-long77
Feb 26, 2023
Ultra Premium Tour - Excellent tour with Mauricio. We enjoyed the horse-drawn carriage ride, visiting the park and chapel, and the tasting experience. Exceptional wine; it was difficult to choose which bottles to bring home.
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Number2girl
Feb 16, 2023
Mountains, sunshine & wine - A tranquil, beautiful location surrounded by the Andes mountains - this visit was just the right pace in 30+ degree heat. A tour of the tranquil gardens, private chapel accompanied by some historical facts and information about the vineyard and wine making were provided by Maria out guide. Her English was perfect and her knowledge provided many interesting facts and information about the wines and history of the vineyard. We concluded with a tasting of 4 of the exceptional wines of the estate, aided by Maria’s highly informative tasting notes. A visit to the shop, cafe and fascinating museum of indigenous culture rounded off a perfect day.
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Roselynef964
Jun 2, 2023
Beautiful place, good wine, not the best tour - I have to say I was a bit disappointed in some aspects but overall I had a good experience. I'm just really upset that the experience did not match what I paid for. For one if I was to do it all over again I would probably not have used TripAdvisor and just gone straight to the winery or call them directly to schedule a tour. TripAdvisor definitely charges you way more than actually going to the winery and purchasing admittance to a premium tour on your own. The price on TripAdvisor is like 70 bucks but if you go to the winery it's only like 25,000 pesos which is roughly 30 bucks or so US dollars. Honestly, for how this tour went it's definitely not worth $70, at least for this particular day I'm not sure if every tour is like this. My tour was originally scheduled for seven people in English. Half of the original group were late so it ended up starting up with three people. 20 minutes into the tour the other half of the group started showing up. Instead of proceeding through the tour and having a nice relaxing time we stood around waiting for these late people to catch up with us and then 10 minutes later they added on six more people halfway through the tour. Because of all the people in the different backgrounds this tour quickly switched from an English tour to a spanish/portuguese/french tour which was aggravating because it's not what I paid for and it became overcrowded so of course the tour guide was more busy rounding up people than actually talking about the winery. Also, because we had to stand around waiting so long we ended up losing around 20 to 30 minutes of what would have been proceeding through the tour to just standing around waiting which, led to us being rushed through our wine tasting! This was really obnoxious because I had to throw all my wines together in one glass toss my cheese into a paper bag and run out the cellar with the tour guide so he could get to his next tour at 4:15 p.m. Instead of being able to sit relax and enjoy the wine. We ended up just touring the gardens, hardly spending any time talking about the wine production process. I feel like if I spend $70 on a wine tour for a major wine company I should at least be able to walk out and tell you how they process wine and how they produce it and what varieties they make wine with. Sorry none of that was part of the tour couldn't tell you have no idea. If it was mentioned, it must have been mentioned in Portuguese or French because it definitely on this "English" tour was not part of the tour guides message. I would have liked if the tour guide taled more about the wine production then and now. It would have been nice to see the production line, or for him to have even mentioned how the production works. We only walk to a space where the old cellar was, and the tour guide was too busy rounding up people and talking to all the newcomers and catching them up on what we had just spent the last 20 minutes going through since they were late, instead of talking about what we were currently looking at. it would have also been nice to have the guide actually even walk you through the vineyard a little bit. The tour was heavily focused on the gardens and the history of the 120 soldiers then rushing through a wine tasting before the next tour. Don't get me wrong I love the gardens I would definitely go back just to see those and the history is really interesting. I also like the little gifts they give you on the way out, I would have liked to know more about the grapes, what they're growing what part of the plots are growing which varieties, which ones are on the property and more about the production of today and it's process. Our guy did not mention a single bit of it and I had to ask a lot of questions that I would normally expect a guide to offer information about without having to be prompted, for example what is that giant barrel for? The tour could generally just use a little bit more improvement as well as the tour guide being more attentive. It's not all his fault though, I'm sure it would help if they didn't keep adding people halfway through the tour and rushing us through the tasting, that was probably the most disappointing part.
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Carocapri
Dec 29, 2023
Overprices, no worthy !!! - The experience was very disappointed for a premium tour, really walking to the garden passing by the house the chuch,no much info about the wine making, grapes, process, very very poor and extremely overpriced. It was not what we were were expecting.
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