Brazilian couple Marcos Attilio and Angela Mochi came to Chile in 2011 to live their dream of setting up a boutique Attilio & Mochi winery in the Casablanca Valley. They make a range of cool-climate, terroir-focussed wines, mainly reds, along with a fruity orange wine and a very moreish fortified wine from Malbec and Syrah.
Natural/Artisanal
Pedro Parra y Familia
Pedro Parra y Familia is the boutique, family winery of renowned terroir expert Pedro Parra, focusing on an artisanal production of natural wines made from old vines of Pais and Cinsault in Itata and Bio Bio. Native yeast and low intervention is Pedro’s style and the wines include a Pais, six Cinsault wines (from different granite soils) and a blend of both varieties.
See also: Altos Las Hormigas, Aristos, Clos des Fous
Tara is the boutique wine project of Viña Ventisquero in the Huasco region of the Atacama Desert. The unique terrain of this cool coastal desert makes mouthwatering wines with bracing acidity and distinctive character, and all the wines are handmade with artisanal techniques in the winery and following natural winemaking principles.
Armidita is a prolific estate and winery in Huasco which was first planted in 1873 with 250 hectares of vines. Today sisters Sandra and Cecilia make a deliciously sweet pajarete wine from old vines of Moscatel, which are made conserving some of the traditional artisan techniques of sun-drying the grapes under the desert sun.