Planta Pisquera Capel
Planta Capel Vicuña
Chile’s largest pisco cooperative winery, at the entrance to Vicuña, offering production tours, a pisco museum and tastings.
Capel is run by the Elqui Valley grape growers’ cooperative. The tour takes about 45 minutes and explains how pisco is made, from Muscat grapes through distillation to aging. Visitors tour the museum and taste several piscos and cocktails, and for an extra fee can join a pisco sour mixing experience. The basic tour is inexpensive and must be booked in advance by session. The winery is about a 15-minute walk from the Vicuña Plaza de Armas, across the river.
Opening hours
Approx. 10:00–18:00 (by guided tour session)
Nearby sights
- Museo Gabriela Mistral
- Cerro de la Virgen, Vicuña
- Plaza de Armas & Torre Bauer, Vicuña
- Villaseca Solar Kitchens
- Observatorio Mamalluca
- Observatorio del Pangue
- Embalse Puclaro
- Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory