Casablanca Wine Tour from Santiago

A Casablanca Valley wine tour from Santiago is a day trip. A van collects you from your accommodation in Santiago, Chile, drives about 80 km west on Ruta 68 towards the coast, and brings you back in the evening. The valley lies roughly two-thirds of the way to Valparaíso, and the drive takes about an hour, up to an hour and a half in Santiago traffic. That leaves room for three wineries and a long lunch with nobody in your group behind the wheel.

For most people on a first visit, the tour to book is the Casablanca Valley 4 Vineyards tour. It picks you up at your accommodation, pours tastings at Emiliana, Bodegas RE and Casa Valle Viñamar, and finishes with a lunch stop at Tanino at Casas del Bosque. It starts from $149 per person (September 2026) and holds 4.9 from 148 Viator reviews. The live price is on the booking page.

How the day works from Santiago

The listing gives 9 hours door to door, and that figure includes the transfers, free time, time at each vineyard and lunch. Pickup and drop-off at your accommodation are part of the price, in an air-conditioned vehicle.

The valley is known for cool-climate whites, above all Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay, with Pinot Noir as its other signature grape. The cool comes from the Pacific: morning fog rolls in off the ocean and burns off during the day. Mornings can be cool and afternoons warm, so dress in layers.

On this tour you taste at three of the four stops. Emiliana farms organically and biodynamically, by its own description. Bodegas RE is a small family winery founded in 2008 by Pablo Morandé, who planted the valley’s first vineyard in 1982; it ferments part of its wine in clay amphorae and keeps them in an underground cellar. Casa Valle Viñamar specialises in sparkling wine. The fourth stop, Casas del Bosque, is lunch at Tanino, ordered a la carte and paid by each person.

It is a shared group tour, and the listing says it may be run in several languages depending on who joins. The guides are trilingual in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The legal drinking age in Chile is 18.

Why a tour beats a bus or a hire car

Buses from Santiago run frequently to Casablanca town, but the wineries are spread along and off Ruta 68 outside town, so a bus alone does not get you to a tasting. You would still need a taxi or a transfer for every leg. Our guide to getting there from Santiago covers the options.

Driving yourself means one person stays sober all day. Chile’s zero tolerance law, in force since March 2012, treats a driver with 0.3 g of alcohol per litre of blood as under the influence, and winery tastings count. On a tour nobody in your group drives. The self-drive vs wine tour page sets out both sides.

Which Casablanca Valley tour from Santiago to book

• Book the 4 Vineyards tour with Viñamar if you want three tastings, including a sparkling-wine house, on a shared day. From $149 per person, 4.9 from 148 Viator reviews, 9 hours.
• Book the Four Casablanca Wineries tour if you want the most-reviewed dedicated wine day on this site: 4.8 from 671 Viator reviews. It visits Emiliana, Bodegas RE and Casa del Molle, then stops for lunch at Tanino at your own expense. From $139 per person, 10 hours, groups capped at 15.
• Book the Private Casablanca Tour if you want your own vehicle. It pairs a four-wine tasting at Emiliana, with a cheese and chocolate board for each person, with a tasting at William Cole, then a lunch stop at Casa del Bosque paid separately. From $150 per person, 4.9 from 118 Viator reviews.
• Book the Casas del Bosque tour with Tanino lunch if you would rather settle into one estate. A four-wine tasting and a three-course lunch at Tanino with two paired wines are included. From $130 per person, 4.1 from 19 reviews.
• Book the Valparaíso, Viña del Mar and Casablanca tour if the coast matters more than the wine. It has one 45-minute tasting stop in the valley and lunch at your own expense in Valparaíso. From $61 per person, 4.8 from 1,350 GetYourGuide reviews. The same day is also on Viator.

The comparison table lines up three of these side by side.

Lunch: check what you are paying for

Lunch is where these tours differ most, and it changes the real cost of the day. On both four-winery tours, Tanino is a stop and you pay for your own meal. On the private tour, lunch at Casa del Bosque is paid separately. Of the five tours above, only the Casas del Bosque tour with Tanino lunch includes the meal itself: three courses and two paired wines. Our wine tours with lunch page goes through every option.

When to go

Chile’s tourism board says the valley can be visited year-round. The harvest in cool Casablanca usually falls between late summer and autumn, and the 2026 harvest festival in Casablanca town was held on 11 and 12 April. Rain is concentrated in the cooler months. Book ahead for weekends and high season, when winery tours and lunch tables fill first.

Emiliana publishes its own tasting tours from Tuesday to Saturday. If your date is a Sunday or a Monday, read the itinerary on the booking page, since the listings note that stops can change with winery availability.

Where to go next

If four wineries in a day appeals, compare them on the 3 and 4 winery tours page. For your own vehicle and schedule, see private Casablanca Valley wine tours. To add Valparaíso, read Casablanca and Valparaíso wine tours. There is more detail in our breakdown of the 4 Vineyards tour, and when you are ready, check availability.