 First look (at the airport) of the variety of Chilean wines |
 First hotel - Hotel Diego de Velazquez in the Providencia district; the back end of the trip we switched to the Plaza El Bosque Nueva Las Condes in the Las Condes district |
 View from our hotel room |
 Lampa Marsh |
 Casas del Bosque winery, Casablanca Valley |
 At Casas del Bosque |
 At Casas del Bosque |
 Tasting room |
 We're the only ones there because we weren't part of a tour and they accomodated us between tours (not like California wineries at all - reservations a must) |
 Kingston Family Vineyards - this was the first stop on an all day tour of Casablanca Valley provided by Uncorked Wines, out of Santiago. |
 Kingston Family Vineyards - at left, Andy Pflaum, whose wife Courtney Kingston is the CEO of the winery |
 Topping off barrels at Kingston |
 Kingston tasting room |
 Next stop - Bodegas RE Winery |
 They make wine the old-fashioned way - literally - using clay vessels |
 ...and some barrels |
 Bodegas RE tasting room (and gift shop) |
 Last stop - Quintay Vineyards |
 Big stainless steel tank |
 In the lunch room at Quintay (and the lunch, btw, was awesome) |
 Wrapping it up at Quintay |
 Yerba Loca National Park |
 Yerba Loca National Park |
 Yerba Loca National Park |
 Driving down from Farellones Ski Resort |
 California poppies! Introduced in Chile in the late 1800s |
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