montgras winery

The real reason we chose to visit Montgras was to make our own wines. We have visited many wineries in Chile with my family, but this activity made them feel like Montgras was one of our best tours yet. The process is both interesting and fun, and we're looking forward to doing a blind tasting of our bottles in a few months to see if we can still determine whose is whose and still each like our own the best.The tour itself was someone basic (great intro to the process) but did include the new-to-us tip for how to identify cabernet sauvignon leaves. Our guide spoke both Spanish and English very clearly and easily led our trilingual group.

Wine is nice, no matter colour, but on this tour you'll have a taste of everything! How this lovely winery looks like, how the different leaves are, and which one was the "cat face"? You will know when you take the tour. When you only smell the wine from a barrel and can't see the colour, is it red or white? Taste it directly from the tank, the fun way. Taste the grapes, and get to know the different characteristics of the classical wines, and of course Chile's Carmenere. I've never learned so much and tasted that much different wine in any tour in any country. This is just fun! Enjoy, and "Salud" :)

Our guide Carlos was fantastic and the most knowledgable of all of the winery tours we did. It felt authentic and more interesting than any other tour. Highly recommend that you visit this one if in Santa Cruz!

Smaller of the wineries but was very informative and we got to make our own wine blend. Very entertaining and staff were all very nice and helpful.

My husband and I visited MontGras on our honeymoon last week. The tour guide, Marcelo, was a great tour guide. He took us out to the vineyard and explained the different types of grapes and leaves that make the different types of wines. Marcelo then took us to taste some of the wines. He was so passionate and knowledgeable about wines. We learned so much and the wine was amazing. I would absolutely recommend that you visit this winery if you're touring Colchagua Valley!

MontGras was suggested to us by Connie Poblete, who runs her own business organizing private tours of the Colchagua Valley. I had never heard of this winery, but Connie highly recommended it and helped us fit it into our plans. We're so glad she did! The grounds were very pleasant, including a colonial-type building housing a shady courtyard, surrounded by beautiful vineyards. The wines were surprisingly delicious, as was a cheese and antipasto plate they assembled for us as a kind gift from Connie. But the best part was the service: our pourers were friendly, knowledgeable, and very passionate about wine. What a lovely memory!

Gonzalo our wine tasting guide Gonzalo was great. The wine lovely. The state lovely. We had a great time. Great value and easy to get to.

This was my first experience visiting a Chilean winery and it set the bar high. Cristian (sp?) was fluent in English and knew a great deal about the wine regions of the world. I very much enjoyed the wines in this stunning location and bought more of them here than anywhere else I visited in Chile.

This place is a great vineyard to visit for a different type of wine tour. They offer traditional tour and tasting (accompanied with food!), make your own bottle of wine (and they give you aprons!) and an evening of horseback riding, picnic and wine tasting with a killer sunset. We did the tour and tasting. It is informative and they have delicious kumquats to try! Favorite part is that they allow you to taste the wines that are not quite ready by opening the spout and putting your mouth under it to enjoy! Super fun and very different from any other winery I have been too. The only downside is that their restaurant has to have a reservation a day in advance so they only buy food for that many people. It would be nice to have a cafe or restaurant to eat at or buy a glass of wine after the tour. Highly recommend and is close to the city center. You can also bike to it but in the summer time it gets hot in the afternoon!

Marcelo gave an excellent tour. We sniffed wine barrels and tasted wine from a vat. Excellent wine discussion with other people on the tour and at the tasting.

We, too, enjoyed the tour with Marcelo. His energy and excitement is contagious. You couldn't help but have a good time and enjoy the great wines!

We visited three winerys, they were all good, but MontGras was the best, Marcelo was such a great host, we had a good time and really enjoyed it. And they have the best chilean wine we tried. If you have the chance to visit MontGras, its the best place in Colchagua valley

I visited this winery about 2 hours south of Santiago, in Santa Cruz on the recommendation of a local friend. He chose this place for us because of the "make your own wine" experience. My friend and I were accompanied by my Chilean friend and his wife and the 4 of us were the only ones on the tour that Sunday. We were greeted by our host Gonzalo, who treated us to an unrushed and personal tour. We first visited the vineyard and he explained the characteristics of the various grape varieties and tasted some fresh fruit from some ornimental fruit trees. We then went into the area with the fermentation tanks and were able to taste directly from the tanks, which was pretty cool and highly unusual, compared to Conchay Y Toro where you couldn't go into the vineyard.. We then went downstairs to become master blenders. We were given a merlot, carmenere and Cabernet Sauvignon to taste and then decide on how to blend these to produce our own custom blend, along with cheese and crackers. Once perfected, the chosen blend is poured into 750ml bottles that we then corked with a manual press, capped and then labelled with a personalized label. As a bonus, we learned that the owner got his start in wine in our native Canada and there was a Canadian flag flying. A great day and highly recommended. Great location and experince. When we went into the boutique to pay he further subjected us to a blind taste test of a syrah, carmenere and a blend, with the correct answer scoring a cork screw. A great afternnon for only 30,000 peseos each.

I visited this winery about 2 hours south of Santiago on the recommendation of a local friend. He chose this place for us because of the "make your own wine" experience. My friend and I were accompanied by my Chilean friend and his wife and the 4 of us were the only ones on the tour that Sunday. We were greeted by our host Gonzalo, who treated us to an unrushed and personal tour. We first visited the vineyard and he explained the characteristics of the various grape varieties. We then went into the area with the fermentation tanks and were able to taste directly from the tanks, which was pretty cool. We then went downstairs to become master blenders. We were given a merlot, carmenere and Cabernet Sauvignon to taste and then decide on how to blend these to produce our own custom blend. Once perfected, the chosen blend is poured into 750ml bottles that we then corked with a manual press, capped and then labelled with a personalized label. As a bonus, we learned that the owner got his start in wine in our native Canada and there was a Canadian flag flying. A great day and highly recommended.

We had a tour and did a unique blind tasting activity on our private tour. It was a fun way to taste many of their wines and discuss their differences. Excellent and gracious English-speaking tour guide.