An oasis of calm, allure and high-quality wine awaits at this historic property set on the world-renowned Santa Rita Wine Property.
Located on the foot of the Andes Mountains in Alto Jahuel within the Maipo Valley – an space recognized for producing a few of Chile’s finest Cabernet Sauvignons – Casa Actual occupies a privileged place simply 40 minutes southeast of the nation’s capital Santiago.
Based in 1880 by businessman Domingo Fernández Concha, Santa Rita is among the oldest and longest-standing wineries in Chile.
The property’s unique hacienda, now a luxurious boutique lodge, was Domingo’s summerhouse and got here adorned with a Neo-Gothic chapel (each of which have been designed by German architect Theodor Burchard) in addition to 40 hectares of beautiful park land (one of many largest and finest preserved in central Chile) designed by main French panorama gardener Guillaume Renner.
Santa Rita’s Chapel
Each the 19-century, Pompeian-style constructing and the sprawling, luscious inexperienced gardens crammed with historic sequoia and palm bushes, flowers, herb gardens, boxwood labyrinths, a lagoon, a pair of black-necked swans, beautiful sculptures and Roman baths, have been declared Nationwide Historic Monuments in 1972.
The property was purchased by Ricardo Claro in 1980 and the manor home 10 years later. The constructing was classically restored respecting its aristocratic historical past and protecting a romantic magnificence, finally opening as Lodge Casa Actual within the mid Nineties.
Lodge Casa Actual eating room
Freshly up to date in 2017, company can select from one in every of 16 lovely and ethereal en-suite bedrooms, all that includes hovering ceilings, cozy beds and opulent furnishings. Every affords a good looking view of the park or internal courtyard. The lodge additionally affords an out of doors pool, sauna and fitness center.
Harking back to a bygone period, the lodge is adorned with unique fittings, vintage furnishings, oil work and textiles filling the entry corridor, salons, eating room, billiard room and the internal colonnade.
Peace and tranquility will be discovered on the terrace overlooking the gardens and likewise within the non-public chapel subsequent door which options Norman arches and stained-glass home windows in addition to superbly painted partitions and vaulted ceiling. It performs host to picture-perfect weddings and concert events all year long.
Lodge Casa Actual bed room
The lodge’s restaurant affords each indoor and alfresco eating choices utilizing the best seasonal elements, a few of that are harvested from the property itself. As well as, company even have the choice to eat within the famend Doña Paula restaurant reached by way of a brief stroll by means of the gardens.
The restaurant is situated contained in the late 18th-century colonial dwelling of Doña Paula Jaraquemada who gave shelter to 120 patriots preventing for the Independence of Chile greater than 200 years in the past – 120 being the identify of the property’s best-selling, entry-level wine and the bottle cellar.
Select from gourmand Chilean dishes paired with Santa Rita wines or take excessive tea on the shaded veranda. Reservations are required: (+562 2 362 2590) or e mail: restaurant@santarita.cl
In fact the vineyard go to and tastings, with or and not using a sundown backdrop, are must-do actions. From traditional to ultra-premium – and several other in-between (together with the choice to take a horse drawn carriage across the gardens) – immerse your self on this planet of Santa Rita, studying concerning the property’s grape varieties, winemaking and cellaring course of in addition to visiting the ‘Cellar of the 120 Patriots’. The wines out there to style vary by tour from entry-level to the property’s higher-end bottlings.
Tremendous followers can even change into a winemaker for the day with a ‘Winemaker Expertise’ through which you’ll design your individual signature wine mix, bottle and cork it, then label and polish it able to take dwelling.
There’s additionally an on-site store brimming with native edible and viscous goodies together with a variety of prime wines from each Chile and Argentina made by Santa Rita and sister wineries; Carmen, Sur Andino and Doña Paula in addition to wine equipment and handmade crafts made by members of the Alto Jahuel group.
With over 130 years of wine manufacturing and expertise, Santa Rita is among the pioneers of progressive Chilean viticulture searching for out new and thrilling areas from which to develop a wide range of grapes whereas additionally specializing in single-vineyard plots and expressions of terroir. With vineyards in among the nation’s finest wine rising areas, the vary of wines continues to develop below the knowledgeable hand of prime Chilean winemaker Sebastián Labbé and his workforce.
Certainly one of which is the brand new, progressive and spectacular Floresta vary comprising; Chardonnay, Subject Mix Blanco, Carménère, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. Dedication additionally stays to the manufacturing of the property’s icon wine Casa Actual – a 100% Cabernet Sauvignon made solely in the perfect years and of which the 1989 classic is a Decanter Wine Legend.
Casa Actual icon bottling
Make sure to additionally save time to find Chile’s fascinating pre-Colombian and post-conquest historical past within the Andean Museum, set on web site and only a few minutes stroll from the lodge. Inaugurated in 2006, the museum has an archaeological and ethnographic assortment of greater than 3,000 items from the completely different cultures which have inhabited the Andean zone, all curated and thoroughly displayed.
Combining flawless service, beneficiant hospitality and an unrivalled allure and sweetness, Lodge Casa Actual supplies an unforgettable keep.
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