5 wine festivals, harvest celebrations, and food-and-wine events — with dates, tickets, and travel tips.
Festivals worth planning a trip around.
Casablanca Valley's harvest festival celebrates Chile's premier cool-climate wine region. Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir take centre stage, alongside artisan food producers and live music. Located halfway between Santiago and Valparaíso, the festival is easily combined with a visit to either city.
View festival detailsChile's most prestigious harvest festival, centred on the town of Santa Cruz in the Colchagua Valley. The three-day celebration includes grape-stomping, cueca dancing, open-air barbecues, and tastings from top Colchagua producers including Montes, Casa Lapostolle, and Viu Manent. Chile's answer to Mendoza's Vendimia.
View festival detailsIn the Atacama-edge Elqui Valley — a UNESCO-protected stargazing destination — the harvest festival celebrates both pisco distillation and the valley's emerging table wines from Muscat, Syrah, and Carménère. Open cellar days at Mistral and Pisco Chile cooperatives are combined with stargazing nights at world-class observatories. An otherworldly wine experience at 1,200m altitude.
View festival detailsAll 5 festivals organised by month.
Fiesta de la Vendimia Casablanca
Kingston Family Vineyards' Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc are the region's cult wines — their boutique winery is worth a separate visit. The afternoon sea fog that rolls in from the Pacific is visible from the vineyard — it's what keeps the valley cool.
Vendimia del Valle de Casablanca
Visit Viña Matetic and Casablanca's smaller producers like Sebastiano directly during the festival when they offer barrel tastings unavailable during regular visits. Time your trip for late February when Sauvignon Blancs are freshly bottled and the coastal marine influence is most evident in the tasting notes.
Fiesta de la Vendimia del Maipo
Arrive early for the traditional grape-treading to photograph indigenous varietals like País being crushed; skip the main-stage folk performances and explore smaller family-run bodegas on the festival's edges where you'll find unfiltered, semi-industrial Carmenères aged in used barrels.
Fiesta de la Vendimia de Colchagua
Book VIP tastings directly with Casa Lapostolle's sommelier team (not through general festival channels) for access to their Apalta Vineyard parcels; the open-air cueca dancing on nights two and three continues late into the evening when locals take over from tourists, offering authentic cultural immersion.
Elqui Valley Harvest & Pisco Festival
Book a ALMA or Mamalluca Observatory night tour the evening before the festival — the clearest skies on Earth are directly above these vineyards. Gabriela Mistral, Chile's Nobel laureate, was born in Vicuña — her family house is a museum.