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Matetic

Explore the valley on foot, horseback, or bicycle, or visit the family cheese operation (the Matetics make a killer sheep's-milk cheese), and cap the afternoon off with a tour of the winery, a stunning hillside facility with a theatrical oval barrel cellar and a pair of grand tasting rooms with a waterfall. Visitors can taste high-caliber wines like the powerful 2003 EQ Syrah, take rides on cables running through the treetops on the property, milk sheep and learn how to make cheese (there's a small working ranch here as well).

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From Travel + Leisure , JUN 2006

Explore the valley on foot, horseback, or bicycle, or visit the family cheese operation (the Matetics make a killer sheep's-milk cheese), and cap the afternoon off with a tour of the winery, a stunning hillside facility with a theatrical oval barrel cellar and a pair of grand tasting rooms with a waterfall. ...MORE>>

– Connie McCabe On the Chile Wine Trail

From Food & Wine , MAY 2006

My first impression of Matetic was that it looked a lot like all the other wineries I'd visited, though it had the longest dirt road (tremenda polvareda) with an even more elaborate winery at the end: a long, sleek overhang coupled to an expansive all-glass front that put me in mind of an airline terminal....MORE>>

– Lettie Teague What Defines a Great Chilean Wine?

From Food & Wine , NOV 2005

Visitors can taste high-caliber wines like the powerful 2003 EQ Syrah, take rides on cables running through the treetops on the property, milk sheep and learn how to make cheese (there's a small working ranch here as well)....MORE>>

– Connie McCabe The Next Wine Country: Chile

Last updated June 2006