Matetic Vineyards - there are Croatians even in Chile

After lunch, we visited Matetic Vineyards. The family immigrated from Croatia in the early 20th century and made a fortune in construction materials and mining.

Seems like you can travel thousands of miles from San Pedro and still run into people from Croatia. Our friend Pauline would love this place and feel right at home - she's Croatian.

What a winery building! Amazing modern architecture and a cellar that looks like it is right our of Star Trek. The walls of the cellar are all built out of river rock and kept in place with steel mesh. We're taking this picture from a balcony overlooking the barrel cellar.

And of course, there is the wine. Matetic's EQ varietals are available at good wine stores in the U.S. at a reasonable price. Good QPR as they say in the wine magazines.

Back to Santiago for dinner now.