Casa Real, Santa Rita Vineyards

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Casa Real at the Santa Rita Vineyards in Chile is surrounded by groves of olive, almond and orange trees

CHILE

Maipo Valley
Casa Real, Santa Rita Vineyards

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The grounds of the Casa Real Hotel in Chile were designed by a famous French landscape artist in 1882

Just south of Santiago, the Maipo Valley is the country's oldest wine region, birthplace of many a Cabernet Sauvignon and home to Casa Real. This 19th-century manor house is part of the Santa Rita Winery's main estate (there are three others) and is surrounded by a 40-hectare garden of olive, almond, orange and lemon trees, designed by a French landscape artist in 1882. The sixteen swanky European-style bedrooms are decorated with antiques, and the clubby game room is equipped with a billiard table imported from England. As for the notables, they include the Doña Paula restaurant, an 1885 neo-Gothic chapel freshened up by a restorer of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel and the winery's Cabs, Chardonnays and Sauvignon Blancs.

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