Today we went to Viña Indómita! After a pretty long bus
ride, we arrived at their winery which was enormous! We had one of the best
views there from our whole trip.
Our guide explained to us the process for
creating their wine and explained that in Chile, they can only have on harvest
a year.
He took us to the cellar where they had endless lines of barreled wine
and he explained that the conditions to create the perfect wine are very
important including the temperature and amount of lighting. The barrels sat on
rocks so if they needed to increase humidity they could just put some water on
them and could better control the humidity. They use engineers to find which
conditions are needed to create the wine and improve the process to bottle and
age the wine so they can export more bottles at lower costs. Next we got to
have a wine tasting while overlooking the entire vineyard! We were explained
the that each type of wine had a different aging process and different types of
grapes to achieve the different tastes including one type of wine which was
explained to us as having a “chocolate and leathery” taste. After we finished
at the vineyard, we got to go to Pablo Neruda’s house, we very famous Chilean poet.
We were served a great meal consisting of our choice of fish in soup or beef.
It was one of the best meals we have had here so far!
After eating, we took a
tour through the museum which used to be Pablo Neruda’s house which overlooked
the ocean with an incredible view! We got to go climb around the rocks on the
beach and just enjoy the scenery. Once we finished up here, we headed off to a
very long dance class where we got to learn regatton which is the more modern
dance that many Chileans dance to. This was one of the most fun experiences on
the trip and we all had a blast.
Afterwards, we headed back to the hotel after
a very very long day!
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