Flaherty Wines

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 and contracted him to do a property plan and coordinate some of the work, like getting a back hoe out to pull out the bigger stumps. His official survey placed the property at 14.4 hectares, instead of the 13.3 estimated by the last surveyor. So who’s right? The new surveyor was more thorough (he pulled out some bushes and cut back trees to get the proper lines), whereas the first survey was more of an estimate, so it sounds like 14.4 is correct. At some point we’ll look into updating the registry at the Conservador de Bienes Raices (Chile’s real estate registry).