Private Valparaíso, Viña del Mar & Casablanca Valley Wine Tour

Overview

A private full-day tour from Santiago to the coast, covering UNESCO-listed Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, plus a wine tasting stop in the Casablanca Valley, with hotel pickup and drop-off included.

This private full-day tour reaches Chile's central coast, combining the UNESCO World Heritage city of Valparaíso with Viña del Mar's gardens and beaches, plus a wine tasting stop in the Casablanca Valley along the way. Hotel pickup and drop-off are included.

Highlights

• Valparaíso Explore the UNESCO World Heritage hillside city, known for its funiculars and colorful houses.
• Viña del Mar See the elegant coastal city, known for its beaches and gardens.
• Casablanca Valley Wine Tasting Stop for a wine tasting in this coastal wine region on the way back to Santiago.

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About This Tour

A private full-day tour from Santiago to the coast, covering UNESCO-listed Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, plus a wine tasting stop in the Casablanca Valley, with hotel pickup and drop-off included. This private full-day tour reaches Chile's central coast, combining the UNESCO World Heritage city of Valparaíso with Viña del Mar's gardens and beaches, plus a wine tasting stop in the Casablanca Valley along the way. Hotel pickup and drop-off are included.

Casablanca Valley, where this tour's wine tasting stop takes place, barely existed as a wine region before 1982, when Concha y Toro winemaker Pablo Morandé planted experimental Chardonnay vines at a site called Tapihue. Until then, the valley's cool, foggy mornings — driven by the cold Humboldt Current rolling in off the Pacific — were considered too chilly for serious viticulture, and the land was used mainly for cut flowers, vegetables, and avocados. Today it's recognized as Chile's oldest cool-climate wine valley, with roughly 4,000 hectares planted, prized especially for Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir — a genuinely different style from the warmer, Bordeaux-inspired reds of Chile's better-known Maipo and Colchagua valleys closer to Santiago.

Valparaíso itself earned UNESCO World Heritage status in 2003, when its 23.2-hectare historic quarter was recognized as an outstanding example of late-19th and early-20th-century port-city architecture, built into a dramatic amphitheater of hills above the harbor. Between 1883 and 1916, around 30 funiculars (ascensores) were built to connect the flat commercial district below with the residential neighborhoods climbing the hillsides — the first, Ascensor Concepción, opened in December 1883 and still runs today, making it more than 140 years old. Of the roughly 16 historic funiculars that survive, only about half remain in regular operation, but their rust-red wooden cars are still one of the city's defining images, alongside the patchwork of brightly painted houses that gives Valparaíso its reputation as one of South America's most photogenic ports.

Viña del Mar, the tour's other coastal stop, began as a very different kind of place: a planned resort town founded on December 29, 1874, by engineer and politician José Francisco Vergara Echevers on land his family had used for growing grapes — hence the name, which translates to 'Vineyard by the Sea.' It earned its nickname 'La Ciudad Jardín' (the Garden City) for its wide boulevards and manicured parks, and its transformation into Chile's premier seaside resort accelerated after its municipal casino opened on December 31, 1930, following a 1928 authorization from President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo. The casino and the city's gardens and beaches still anchor Viña del Mar's identity today, a world apart from Valparaíso's steep, weathered hills just a few kilometers down the coast.