Don Maximiano Icon Winery

In 2009 the need to project itself into the XXI century and to search for wines of an even higher quality, inspired Viña Errázuriz to start building a new winery devoted exclusively to its high-end range of wines. Here, the integration of cutting edge technologies has gone hand-in-hand with sustainability and environmental protection, thus paying homage to Don Maximiano’s visionary and courageous spirit.

With a capacity to produce 347,000 litres, the new Don Maximiano Icon Winery was designed by the architect Samuel Claro and built completely with bleached concrete. Its main body is underground and its spiral shape allows for the movement of fruits and liquids by means of gravity and to capture the refreshing breezes from the valley.
To maintain adequate levels of temperature and illumination the building harnesses geothermal and solar energy, which are completely environment friendly.

The winery was officially opened in October 2010 with more than 100 guests from all over the world, including leaders of the industry and the specialist press.

  • Built with white stained cement, Viña Errazuriz’s new Icon Winery is designed to recall a ship in full sail.

  • The contrast of pure, clean planes with circular shapes, characterizes the architecture of Viña Errazuriz’s Icon Winery.

  • Minimalistic in style, the tasting room at Viña Errazuriz’s Icon Winery enjoys a magnificent view towards the vineyard of La Cumbre.

  • The wines flow naturally, by the force of gravity alone, to this barrel cellar, located in the basement of the Icon Winery.

  • Conceived as a ship that sails through a sea of vines, the premise of Viña Errazuriz’s Icon Winery is forerunner in the use of renewable energies.

  • The curved interior spaces, shaped in the form of a spiral, reinforce the gravitational character with which Viña Errazuriz’s Icon Winery was conceived.