Aconcagua Valley DO
A warm interior Chilean valley north of Santiago renowned for powerful, age-worthy Cabernet Sauvignon and Carmenère, and home to icon wine Seña.
About Aconcagua Valley
The Aconcagua Valley stretches inland along the Aconcagua River some 65 km north of Santiago, in the east of Chile's Valparaíso Region — a warm, sun-drenched, dry interior where the country's most powerful red wines are made. Cabernet Sauvignon leads by a wide margin, joined by Syrah, Carmenère and Merlot, all benefiting from intense sunshine tempered by cold air spilling off the Andes that yields broad day-to-night temperature swings and firm natural structure. The valley is the cradle of Chilean icon wine: Viña Errázuriz built its reputation here, and the Seña estate established it on the global fine-wine map with structured, age-worthy reds. Recognized as a Denominación de Origen under Chile's foundational Decree 464 of December 1994, the broader Aconcagua DO also reaches to cooler coastal zones, but its interior heartland remains defined by bold, concentrated Cabernet and Carmenère built for the cellar.
Terroir & regulation
Principal producers
- Seña
- Viña Errázuriz
- Viñedos Chadwick
- Von Siebenthal
Editorial notes
The warm interior heartland of Chilean icon reds; Seña and Viñedo Chadwick put it on the world fine-wine map.