Viña Concha y Toro
Historic Chilean winery with a subterranean cellar guarded, by legend, by the devil himself.
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This guide to Viña Concha y Toro outside Santiago follows Melchor Concha y Toro, the silver-fortune heir who founded the winery in 1883 and kept losing his best bottles to thieves from a locked underground cellar. You'll hear how, when iron bars alone couldn't stop the raids, he turned to a rumor of flickering lights and footsteps in the dark instead, and how his men kept that story alive with masks, dogs, and fires lit before dawn. The cellar still carries the name it earned that way: Casillero del Diablo, the devil's own.
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