laura hartwig winery

First we had a ride through the vineyard with a horse and cart. Then we got to hear the history of Laura Hartwig and taste their wonderful wines. Well worth visiting!

This was our first of sixteen wineries visited in Chile in October. It was a great pick. We were met by Mitzi, who was just a wonderful guide. We took a horse-drawn carriage to tour the vineyards, stopped to sample different grapes and had the opportunity to ask lots of questions. The tour of the bottling, labelling (all hand-done) and cellars was great. This tour was a great introduction to wineries in Chile. Reservations needed, tasting fees, specialized, personalized tours, HUGE vineyards, compared to the US, Canada or Europe, and amazing specialized service. Mitzi was truly so well-informed, so charismatic and so attentive to our needs. We tasted wines at a lovely set table for just the two of us and the samples (as at most of the wineries) are very significant (eat a good breakfast!). We really liked all the wines we tasted however, what stood out was their award-winning Carmenere Gran Reserve (2009 was amazing!). We really enjoyed our time here, the tasting room and gift area are wonderful, understated and very comfortable. Excellent experience and with the lovely Spring weather, warm Chilean sun, clear air and the wonderful Mitzi, it is a memory we will have forever.

My son and I were staying in Santa Cruz recently on a trip from Australia. We didn't have time set aside to do a full tour of the Laura Hartwig winery but decided to visit the comfortable room where wines were available for tasting. Behind the counter we found a young man named Caesar who was keen to give a balanced view of the wines available and generous in providing tasting samples. To our delight we found the several varieties of high quality and exceptional value. Impressively, Caesar was happy to give advice about other local wines and wineries but in the end we were pleased to have made purchase of several bottles of Laura Hartwig.

Here you can find best wines to cheap prices,the tour is very personalized, the views are very interesting, really we love Laura Hartwig

We walked here from Santa Cruz, it's only about 1.5ks from town. We didn't do the tour as we hadn't booked ahead, the tour here costs clp10000 which is more than reasonable for this area.The lady did take us for a brief look at the oak barrels and storage house while giving us a brief run down of the history which was a lovely touch.It costs around clp1000 - 3000 to taste each wine and the taste sizes are very generous. We enjoyed a very comfortable hour or so tasting wines and chatting with the lady at the desk who knew a lot about the wines, the area, the owners etc. All in all, a very pleasant experience at this family run winery - with delicious wines to taste and buy. We would definitely go back, thanks very much to the lady at the front desk who made our experience a good one!

After visiting a variety of vineyards around Chile, my sister and I assumed we were going to get the standard tour at Laura Hartwig. Thankfully, we were wrong. This is by far one of the most interesting, most educational wine tours I've been on (in Chile or the US). Our guide was extremely knowledgeable and approachable. They have you taste the grapes and juice at every step of the wine-making process. And buying wine by the bottle in the store is very reasonable given the delicious quality. It's a great experience- well worth the price.

Came here for a tasting, and wasn't disappointed. Unlike many wineries in Chile, the woman serving the wine was knowledgeable and very helpful. Good value at the tasting, very generous pours. Wines are of excellent quality across the board - a winery not to be missed.

This is a beautiful, small winery with a leisurely tour and informative tasting. Our guide, Mitzi, took us on a horse drawn tour of the vineyards. As it was near the harvest, we were able to sample many of the grapes right the vine. A full tour of the process, including hand labeling of the bottles, was followed by an informative and generous tasting of 4 excellent and well priced wines. Don't let this one get away!

We had a wonderful couple of hours at Laura Hartwig winery. We had not planned to enjoy our visit as much as we did. It was a beautiful spring afternoon and we were fortunate to enjoy the personable and knowledgeable Cesar to ourselves. What a great host! It was truly a wonderfully unexpected afternoon stop! Highly recommended!

Nice wine tasting in the late afternoon. Nice facility! Easy location outside Santa Cruz. Good tasting wines!

We walked from our hotel TerraVina to this winery. We didn't do the full tour with the carriage through the vineyard (we had made no prior reservation) but we got explanations of the way they do business. It was interesting to hear about the differences in importing to different countries. We tasted two wines and the lady (who worked there for only one month) didn't rush us. We could sit outside so we had a pleasant hour or so.

Although I had heard about the Laura Hartwig Winery before we embarked on our trip to the Colchagua wine region, it was not high on my list of places to visit since their wines are, for all practical purposes, not available in my country. Still, there are some stops on a wine tour that you do because of a hope, faint as it might seem some days, that great wines are being made but you are not seeing them because they are being crowded out of stores by larger wineries. This was one of those stops.The "tasting room", more like an "area" has four bar-sized chairs surrounding a bar. Behind the bar there is room for Cesar, the "bartender" and wine expert, the glassware, a few bottles of wine, the computer playing some mellow tunes, and, if the person is very svelte, maybe one other human being. Said differently, you will be face to face with Cesar and the wines, both of whom are good at what they do.We went just hoping to try their 2009 100% Petit Verdot which a tour guide on another tour had told us was a fantastic work of art. We told this to Cesar, but after talking with us a bit about the wines we generally like, he figured out we should also try some of their blends. He pointed us to their 2009 Gran Reserva (a nice blend of four varietals), and 2011 Merlot (with 10% of the Petit Verdot grape that had started us down the path to the winery), and of course, the 100% Petit Verdot. All were good wines, with the Gran Reserva clearly needing 5-7 more years to reach an early maturity, but the star of the show was as we had hoped, the 2009 Petit Verdot (which is 100% Petit Verdot). Just that wine was worth the visit, but if you add Cesar's great conversation and knowledgeable commentary to the charm of the walk-in closet-sized tasting area, then you have a wonderful memory you will take home.This is a winery that does not showcase a great view of the valley, nor great architecture, nor amazing technology, nor a huge estate, and we did not see the tour so we cannot comment on that, although I suspect it will be a simple but entertaining tour. Still, with Cesar as your guide, this is a winery that reminds you that falling in love with a wines (for us the Petit Verdot) is what should happen when you open each and every bottle. The three wines we tried were clearly made with great care and a deep conviction that if one cannot make a good wine one should probably just sell the grapes to someone who can. Even if there is no way to get these wines in your country, I would encourage you to stop by the winery and fall in love again, this time with one of their wines.

Laura Hartwig is a boutique winery with a small tasting room managed by Cesar. Cesar speaks excellent English and is very helpful. You do not need an appointment at the wine tasting room but I you want a tour you should book it.Tastings are priced individually so you can taste which wines you like. We decided to share a tasting of all of the wines which was $20 U.S. All of their wines are pleasant, but their best wines are much superior. We both liked their Syrah and their Grand Reserve. The Grand Reserve is a blend of Cabernet Savignon, Syrah, Petit Verdot, Carmenere. It was very good and retails for between $30 and $35 U.S. Although we did not book a tour, Cesar gave us a mini-tour. We were at the tasting room for more than an hour. I recommend you put Laura Hartwig on your wine tasting itinerary.

We went there after going to Montgras and it just was not the same caliber of wine tour or tasting.However, we did buy a couple of bottles of wine, one of which made it all the way back to the USA with me. Good wine so-so tour, but do try their wines.

Delicious wines and very nice staff. Beautiful grounds. They took us by cart and horse which is so fun for kids.