La Serena & Elqui Valley Ancient-Avant Garde Wines, Food & Piscos

DE DE Chilean wine and pisco evolves from the oldest DE Chilean city, La Serena, to the oldest, most recognized and attractive DE cultural destination in the country, the Gran Valle del Elqui, a heavenly paradise of mountains that gave life to the most important treasures and cultural emblems of Chile and Hispanic America. You will discover the first vineyards and places where amazing bacchanals and the most extreme ENdimias were held in the new world, DE DE well as the places where the winemaking and alcohol trade EN Colonia began and spread in Chile and the Southern Cone. You will learn about the first DE bogas and vineyards DE Chile’s history and their amazing evolution that gave life to DE America’s oldest appeal, the Chilean pisco and later the DEnomination of origin of its famous nectar wines and bow ties. DE tasting spectacular wines and one of the most attractive geographies and atmospheres in the world of wine.

Itinerary

1. We will tour the historic sites DE La Serena and Coquimbo that gave life to the oldest city DE the coast DE the country and the origins of Chilean and Southern Cone viticulture (30 min)
2. We will know the first sites and ancestral landscapes DE inhabited the most important indigenous cultures DE the Coquimbana coast (Picunches, Changos, Animas and Incas) next to the first settlements and haciendas houses of the Spanish conquistadors and the first indigenous churches and encomiendas that would start European agriculture, along the Andean and tropical Coastal Valley (20 min)
3. You will meet the bo DE ga, vineyard and house DE the conquistador Francisco de Aguirre, the father of Chil ENo and Argentinian wine, DE where the vines departed from Chile to Argentina in 1556, creating the basis of South American viticulture (15 min) Admission included
4. We will visit the store of typical products and wines of Viña Falernia to have a tasting of their main wines that changed the scene and map of Chilean wine. (40 min) Admission included
5. We will have typical Chilean food at the Solar Kitchens of Villaseca based on appetizer, main course, accompaniment, desserts, soft drinks and wine. (1h 30min)
6. Photo stop to observe one of the oldest and most beautiful wine landscapes in Andean America (20 min)
7. Walk and free time through this beautiful and ancient mecca of the most desired alcohols in the Andean world (30 min)
8. We will visit the oldest underground cellar and pisco and wine nectar distillery in Chile. We will taste artisanal piscos and ancient concoctions (45 min) Admission included
9. We will visit one of the highest altitude vineyards in the world that produces red varieties with ancestral and advanced methods. It is considered one of the most avant-garde wineries in the world. (1h 15min) Admission included
10. You will taste the first varieties of vines that arrived and crossed in South America, in a small winery of authorship that manufactures amazing nectar wines and assemblies of great invoice and precision, rescuing methods, varieties and ancestral techniques with classical oenological technology. (40 min) Admission included
11. Tour and free time through one of the most important cities and cultural capitals of the country (30 min)