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Central Valley
Southwest of Chile's capital, Santiago, lies the large Valle Central — an expanse of fertile and fairly flat land between the Andes and the Coastal Range, the low-lying mountains just inland from the Pacific.
It is Chile's most notable wine area, where a majority of the most important appellations are found, including the two most renowned, Maipo Valley and Colchagua Valley.
The most fertile part of the valley — the centre, where the soils are deepest — grows an abundance of crops from wheat, corn and beans to nuts, fruits and sugar beets; it is in the LESS fertile, granitic soils, often hugging the hillsides, that wine grapes are grown.
Key grapes
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Carmenère
- Chardonnay
- Merlot
- Sauvignon Blanc
- climate
- sheltered valley floor between the Andes and the Coastal Range; Andean snowmelt irrigation
- soil
- well-drained friable granite on the hillsides; loam, sand and clay in the fertile centre; alluvial fans below the Andes
- classification system
- DO Valle Central
- signature
- Chile's historic wine centre and the source of most of its important appellations
- quality note
- spans flood-irrigated bulk wine to icon wines — no single structural profile applies
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