The archaeological site was located on the property of the In Situ Winery Vina San Esteban. They are a medium sized winery that make 2 and 2.5 million liters and 3.6 million bottles per year. I am intrigued that this is only medium sized winery and not large but it just goes to show how big the wine industry is here in Chile. They produce wines under the NC chew brand as well as private labels. It was interesting for her to tell us about 1 private label which was "Sweet Bitch". They distribute to various places in the US with New Jersey being the largest. We had a lovely guide named Angela. She is a renaissance woman, a singer with a band and also a wine aficionado. There were only six of us on the tour so there were plenty of opportunities for questions. We were able to get to know each other as well. One couple was a local teacher and a friend of hers from Australia. The other was a couple from Santiago, who had just recently visited Miami.
The view of the mountains from The Vineyards
They also had fruit trees and these were lemons
Lemonade anyone?
There was a beautiful rose garden right at the edge of the Vineyards
Red rose
My beautiful gal
The Yellow rose of Los Andes
Think Pink
Old style wine processing jugs
Our guide pointing out some detail
Both French and American barrels
The ceiling of the building
Machinery to process the grapes
The vineyards abs the mountains
The other members of the tour
Elisa the local English teacher and Isabella from Australia
This region is also a very large Walnut producer
Our wine tasting with tasty walnuts and raisins
