There are not many wineries that have got the right balance with the accommodation, location, ambience, comfort and an overall “good feeling”. The Viña Matetic has manged to create all the aforementioned with their La Casona Hotel.
The winery itself is located in the valley about 3kms from the hotel, along the picturesque Rosario Valley, which is a sub valley of the San Antonio Valley. Here, are the storage tanks, wine-producing equipment, and a very unique wine cellar. At this facility hotel guests will be given a tour, after which they will be able to taste some wines before returning to the hotel to relax and enjoy.
Guests on this program can stay for one night, two nights or longer and enjoy other activities such as horse riding, biking or just walking.
About
The Viña Matetic La Casona Hotel is a small, boutique hotel, that has been renovated from a previous property at the location, dating back to the early 1900’s. It has, effectively, been rebuilt in the original colonial “hacienda” design along with a country-themed interior decoration and furnished with elegant, colonial style furniture to replicate the period of its original construction. The main structure comprises a one floor building in a square format around a central, inner garden, which is open at one end.
From the open space at the end of the inner garden is an exterior garden with swimming pool and barbecue area.
In the main body of the hotel is a common use living room, tastefully furnished, and decorated as you would expect to find in someone’s private home, as well as a pool table at one and a small bar, operated under the “honest bar” concept.
In another area is a restaurant for interior dining, again, furnished with traditional-style furniture from a colonial time.
Restaurant
Apart from the hotel’s own, interior restaurant there is a separate unit, about 100m from the main hotel, beside its own, small, fish-filled pond and ducks, with a quaint walk-over bridge, and in this building is a top-end restaurant for day trippers as well as hotel guests. In the area between the restaurant and main hotel is an exceptionally well landscaped garden, which is a delight to walk through.
Apart from the comfort of staying over at La Casona, there is, of course, the option to explore the rural Rosario Valley and visit the Matetic winery production unit and cellars which are 3km away, after which is a tasting of some of their wines.
In addition to the above, La Casona offers various programs whereby guests can stay overnight on a bed and breakfast program, or a full day including various activities, or a two, or three night all-inclusive program where all meals, wine tours, tastings as well as activities are included.
Here at ExperienceChile.Org, as always, we will include a stay at La Casona if it fits into your itinerary and it is something you would like. We have often built into clients’ itineraries a first night arrival at La Casona (it is only 1hr from Santiago airport), and / or a final night at this hotel prior to departing Chile.
However, if you have the budget, we highly recommend at least two nights at this great little wine hotel.
The La Casona hotel is located near the entrance point to the Matetic Vineyard at the western end of the Rosario Valley. This valley runs parallel to the larger, Casablanca valley and they are approximately 20km apart.
It will take about 1hr to drive from the centre of Santiago, less so from the airport, to the turn off point just before Casablanca town (73km from Santiago), on the main Ruta 68 that runs through the Casablanca Valley (on the way to Valparaiso) and from here, it is about 30mins south on route F90, turning off to the east (in other words turning off left) at the second junction, to the La Casona hotel. Just past a local road toll booth you will need to turn left to the hotel and vineyard reception.
There are 10 guest rooms at La Casona all emitting a boutique, colonial style.
The rooms are spacious and decorated with “up market” taste, but maintaining the traditional, period style with country-style patterned curtains, quality bed coverings and warm-coloured walls. However, there is also a TV for those who can’t get away totally from modern life.
Each room is located around a central, inner square garden. The rooms are spacious, with large en-suite bathrooms, as well as individual doors that open out to an exterior veranda that runs along the length of each exterior side of the guest rooms.
In addition, each room has an Italian bed configuration, which means that the large, matrimonial bed can easily be separated into two, twin beds.
Rooms are named after different wine varietals, depending on which direction they are facing.
Therefore, for example, all the rooms with a view to the garden and exterior restaurant are named after white wines and after some local places too:
Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Santa Matilde and Valle Hermoso.
The other rooms, that face a vineyard are named after the red wines such as:
Malbec, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Syrah and Carmenere.
We will include this hotel as part of your itinerary if requested to do so or if required for a logistical reason, or if it suits your itinerary budget.
We can arrange a bed and breakfast, with wine tour and tasting, or a longer stay under an all-inclusive program.
Should you want only bed and breakfast we will arrange the required transfers here and back.
YES. Depending on what else we are arranging in your overall itinerary we may well be able to include a night at La Casona free of charge.
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