LanZur wines are indeed outstanding wines. Made of grapes from the Maule Valley just south of Santiago, Chile’s capital city, they benefit from the rare joining of sunny climates and cool ocean breezes. The surrounding mountain ranges provide a cool, moisture-free climate that contributes to the top-quality that LanZur wines exhibit.

Since Chile and most of South American were under Spanish colonial rule until the 1800s, little was done to promote their wine industry. Just as the missions in California produced sacramental wine, Chilean vineyards also grew up around the same principle. After South America gained its independence from Spain, most wine makers were content to stick with their traditional wines until prosperous Chileans started bringing back foreign wines from their travels abroad.

Chilean wines are becoming highly favoured in today’s wine market. The wines of Chile and South America in general, tend to be ripe and fruity in flavour, much like their Californian counterparts. Clearly these wines benefited from both Spanish and French prototypes brought to them by the European explorers and settlers who developed South America.