Viña Morandé S.A.

122 kilometres south of Santiago along the Panamerican Highway rise the buildings of the winery belonging to Viña Morandé S.A. To one side of the main road and opposite the Sanctuary of Santa Rosa de Pelequén, a modern plant is placed, right in the heart of the Rapel Valley.

With three reception lines for the grapes, meaning that fruit can be delivered in individual harvesting boxes of 12 kilos, in bins of 400 kilos or in hoppers of 2.0000 kilos, these last being lifted by a system of mechanical chains located above each crusher. The three horizontal crushers have stainless steel worm screws and are connected to temperature exchangers which allow the must to be cooled or heated before it passes to the presses. Each line has a capacity of 35 tons per hour.

The pressing zone consists of 3 pneumatic presses of 25,000 kilos each, plus 5 plate presses of 5,000 kilos each and one mobile pneumatic press with a 5,000 kilos capacity. All-included, there is a pressing capacity of 500 tons per day.
The plant also has two cold centres, plus mobile equipment which together provide a total capacity of 920 thousand units of refrigeration per hour. In two aisles with complete thermal insulation there are 176 Stainless Steel tanks of different capacities, offering a total capacity in steel of 10,792,000 litres. There are also casks of American and French Oak, adding 386,000 litres of capacity for aging and storing "reserve" wines.

The bottling room has a multi-format line and is totally pressurized to avoid external contamination. It has a capacity of 5000 bottles per hour, allowing traditional and self-adhesive labels to be used and wax to replace the capsule protecting the cork.
It also has warehousing for the storage of bottled wine, with enough space in total for 1 million bottles.

Finally, it has laboratories for analysis and microbiology, with all the latest equipment.

In summary, Viña Morandé S.A. has the most modern technology available for the production of fine wines.