Saturday, November 15, 2008

Having dinner at "Casita de Barreales" in Santa Cruz

The glasses are ready :-)

The Montes wines we tasted

Andrea posing in front of "Montes" premium wine

The barrells for the few premium wine of Montes. Underneath the ground.

A fabulous dining table inside the winery

Nice weather at the vinyard

My favorite shot from the "Montes" winery

Another view inside Montes winery

Reserva barrells are being filled with newer wine, which then mixes
and less good wine being put in steel barrells. All done by gravity.

In the afternoon we visited the more famous "Montes" vinyard

Having lunch back in Santa Cruz. Local Siedfleisch con verdura :-)

The "Las Ninas" wines which we tasted. Our favorites were the 2 on the
right.

The bottle labling machine is used 3 times a week

Andrea at "Las Ninas" - they produced approx 1 mio liters of wine in
2007

Inside the architect-designed winery

Each hectar is labeled by one of the women

The "Las Ninas" label

We visited the "Las Ninas" vineyard, founded in 1998 by women of a
French family

Santa Cruz is famous for best Chileanian wine

The next day, we went to explore the Chilenian vineyards around Santa
Cruz