Viña Cousiño Macul
Nineteenth-century stone cellars and family estate on land once a thousand hectares, now hemmed in by the city.
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This guide to Vina Cousino Macul in Santiago opens with Matias Cousino buying a thousand hectares at the foot of the Andes in 1856, then follows his son Luis and Luis's wife Isidora Goyenechea, who imported cabernet sauvignon and merlot cuttings from Pauillac around 1860 and built the brick-and-limestone cellars finished in 1878, using sand and egg white as mortar in the style of the era. Look closely at the walls around you, bound together by a technique long since abandoned by modern builders.
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