TOURING MAIPO VALLEY CHILEAN WINERIES!

We boarded a large touring van, after numerous cups of delicious coffee, and headed into Chile’s wine country!  We drove past some magnificent street art (sorry, couldn’t capture pictures from the bus—hope to walk by some later?) and beautiful landscapes!

This was our first glimpse of a Chilean vineyard with the mountains as a backdrop!  Can you say “AMAZING”?


FIRST STOP: VINA UNDURRAGA WINERY







The tour of the winery, the grapevines, and the grounds was amazing!  And then we drank FOUR WINES (for breakfast)!

SECOND STOP: SANTA EMA WINERY






Santa Ema was a beautiful and modern winery.  We walked around the grounds admiring the views and then we drank THREE WINES!




THIRD STOP:  LUNCH AT ZIN FANDEL!


We each had scrumptious lunches here (that were actually dinners)!  We were all happy for that as we had lots of morning wine to soak up!  


Mike was very perplexed by this sign (it was in the restroom)!  He came back to the table, showed everyone this picture and every man at the table said, “I put it in my
pocket!” 🤣

FOURTH STOP: LA QUIRINCA WINERY




La Quirinca was a very small winery that also had animals!  This was my favorite of the day (for obvious reasons)!







This is a picture of a rooster (or chicken?) that was walking around the winery.  There is a sad story about this rooster (or chicken?) but I cannot bring myself to share it. 😥  Ask John to tell you sometime! 😢



 …and then we drank TWO WINES and several PISCOS!  OH.DEAR.LORD.



We arrived back at the hotel, dropped off our wine purchases, and walked down the street to have pizza for dinner (lunch).  All four of us marveled at what an amazing day we had just enjoyed.  Every part of it was memorable.  Back in our rooms after the pizza was finished, we got a text from Mike saying “Patte can’t find her purse.”  

We turned on “Find My Phone” and her IPhone was located 16 minutes away.  Then 24 minutes away.  We watched it traveling around Santiago. 😳 Patte’s credit card issued a fraud alert after a $1600.00 purchase was attempted.  UGH!  This story will continue tomorrow….

BUENAS NOCHES, everyone!




 



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