It’s been ages since I’ve written about the vineyard project in Cauquenes, but that doesn’t mean the project is languishing. We’re moving forward with the first phase of planting, despite a few obstacles. One of the first challenges when establishing a vineyard is ensuring a water supply. Cauquenes gets more the twice the rainfall of [...]

We were out at Cauquenes on the weekend of the 8th. Don Ismael has done the initial clearing of the vineyard site and fenced off the old adobe building that we use for storage (and our base camp when we visit). Things are really moving along. We met a new surveyor while we were there [...]

We just spent our first weekend at the Cauquenes property as owners. We drove down on Friday, camped for two nights, and drove back on Sunday. It was a lot of driving, but a great weekend nonetheless. Don Ismael is our caretaker. He runs his six horses on the property, which has a huge effect [...]

And it was pretty touch and go. We met the three Quesada sisters at a notary in Santiago to sign the papers prepared by the bank. One of the sisters did not want to sign because she disagreed with the terms of payment. Not the price, just the terms. We went ahead and signed (we’re [...]

It’s official: We’re buying vineyard land in Cauquenes! Ed made an offer on one of the properties he’s been viewing, and the offer was accepted. The offer was based on a price per hectare, so we had a surveyor come out to measure the land. The property had been estimated at around ten hectares, but [...]