Although white varieties such as Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc have been recognized world wide, local winemakers hope to one day be able to produce red wines of equally high quality in the valley. The growth of the wine industry in Casablanca has been explosive. There are approximately 25 large vineyards established in the valley today, including Indomita, Casas del Bosque, Casablanca, Veramonte, William Cole, and others. In addition to the advantages of the valley’s natural characteristics, we can add its proximity to the port cities of Valparaíso and San Antonio.
Valparaíso, harbour city located in the Southwest coast of South America, to the Northwest of Santiago de Chile. Valparaíso is a hidden yewel of Latinamerica. A city full of history and nostalgia, an urban and architectonic curiosity, a never founded city. Valparaíso is a natural bay surrounded by a cordilleran mountain chain that leads to the sea, making an amphitheatre loocking at the Pacific.
Valparaiso
The city was built spontaneusly by its inhabitants going up the hills slopes. The houses look like colomfull clusters that challenge gravity and vertigo. Different architectural styles coexist naturally without any prejudice, mixing buildings of different qualities and manufactures:grand mansions with marmor stairs next to fragile small houses standing on palafittes. Richly elaborated woods next to daubed boards. Beautiful lanes that lead to unending stairs, where the wind becomes a companion invite the visitor to discover the wonders of life in vertical direction. A labyrinth, where light filters through the windows to show us the way to a balcony. A city where the Pacific Ocean opens itself in front of us showing us the agitated life of a harbour, with its ships and multicolor boats and unlimited perspective of the horizon.
History Of Splendor And Nostalgia
Nostalgia made of Valparaíso its home, because history let its yellowish leafs fall by one the city`s streets. Discovered by the Spanish captain Juan de Saavedra, who came aboard the caravel "Santiaguillo", Valparaíso sealed its destiny tied to the sea. It grew as a village and gained importance in the 19th century. Valparaíso became an active economic center and one of the main ports of the South Pacific. It was the obligatory stop after crossing the Cabo de Hornos and a springboard to the Nothamerican coasts. The city grows and shakes becoming a cosmopolitan and dynamic metropolis. Inmigrants brought the esthetic influences of their homelands. Along with their memories, the new inhabitants of Valparaíso started to model a space and shape that characterizes the old city of Valparaíso. Its halo of romanticism and tradition give the city a nostalgic nature that nourishes the soul of poets, film makers and artists who get together in the cafes and bars developing the intellectual life along with bohemian life. Charles Darwin was in Valparaíso after crossing Cape Horn; the nicaraguan writer Ruben Dario worked as a clerk at Valparaíso`s customs and it is said that this experiences inspired his book "Azul". Pablo Neruda built one of his raving houses in Valparaíso, called La Sebastiana where he let his imagination sail under full sails with the winds of inspiration.
Bright Bohemia
Like any good port, Valparaíso has an interesting night life, were bohemia makes a walking tour along mythical places where to take a coffee or a drink wine with friends of the poetry, the cinema, boleros and tangos. As a World Heritage site Valparaíso is a real alternative as a new undiscovered touristic destination. It offers beautiful natural and urban landscapes, typical and unique places and misterious corners yet not discovered.
5th Region - Capital City: Valparaíso 
