 Looking straight up in the lobby of the Santa Cruz Hotel, the
reflection of the sky-light mosaic can be seen in the face of this
elevator.
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 From this highpoint in the San Pedro Vineyards, one can look out over the great expanse of Casablanca Valley.
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 A wide-angle perspective on this vineyard of gewurtztraminer creates a fan of perfectly formed, brilliant green rows.
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This cluster of beautiful, luscious grapes are gewurztraminer planted at Altacima.
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 The beautifully adorned entrance to Casa Tarapaca is seen here from a high staircase over looking the black and white checkered floor.
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 In the few minutes before the wine tasting began, I captured a moment of reflection in this water glass. Look for the standing person, the mountains, and the vineyards, all inverted in the water.
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 Walking through Barrio Concha y Toro, I glimpsed this glass of brandy sitting atop a store counter.
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 In the publicly accessible part of the devil's cellar, these barrels of cabernet are being filtered through a hose in the ceiling.
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 During a tasting and Vina Mar winery, I snapped this image of my white wine glass with some condensation at the bottom, and several other glasses in the background.
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 This San Pedro cellar is one of the oldest in Chile, built in 1854. The mortar holding together these stones is mixed with egg white to make it more earthquake resistant.
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 This mosaic was created from over 600 Chilean wine bottle labels, together creating an image of malbec grapes.
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 Down the length of this dark hallway in the heart of the Los Robles winery, shine the tiny hatches of the tanks, opened now for cleaning.
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 Piled three high on steel racks, these oak barrels at the Echeverria winery loom at the end of a row of steel tanks.
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 A horse drawn carriage tours the expanse of the Tarapaca vineyards, which lie below the towering Chilean hills, spotted with green shrubs.
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 This small white chapel sits at the intersection of two dusty roads, a small but brilliant feature of the Tarapaca estate.
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 This line of presidential carriages is one of many features of the public tour at the Bisquertt winery.
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 Behind Emiliana winery's product line of organic wines, placed neatly on this cabinent, hung this perfect row of wine glasses.
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 In the devil's cellar, this private collection of wine is bathed in red light and great mystery.
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 These buds of cabernet sauvignon are framed in a photograph whose area is no bigger than your thumbnail.
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 This dusty hallway, lined with unlabelled bottles, leads to a circular cellar at the Los Robles winery.
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 These towering wine barrels at the Echeverria winery can hold 35,200 liters each.
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