点评:My wife and I booked 2 private wine tours (Maipo Valley and Colchagua Valley) with Maipo Valley Wine Tours. We have done wine tours in New Zealand, Australia, California and Niagara Canada and these Chilean tours were definitely the best we have done to date. If we could give them 10 stars out of 5 we would as we can not imagine how our experience could have been any better.
We worked out the details for the 2 trips via email with Juan who set us up with 3 wineries and lunch each day. Juan was easy to work with and was helpful with information on staying and eating in Santiago and on local customs (tipping, best time to book dinners, travel stuff). Each of the wineries Juan suggested had a slightly different feel, from large and modern to smaller and more intimate and each offered something in addition to a tour of the winery itself and wine tasting (most with 5 or fewer people) such as a drive through the vineyards or a guided walk through the grounds or gardens or a collection of native artifacts. Like the wineries, the two restaurants Juan booked for lunch each day were also very different from each other. The food was excellent at both, but one was a very modern outdoor bistro overlooking the winery while the other was in a heritage building where we ate on a large veranda overlooking a garden.
On our first day we were met by our driver extraordinaire Filipe and our very knowledgeable wine tour guide Christian, both who spoke excellent English. Filipe is an excellent driver and made sure we were hydrated and comfortable and on time for all our tours. Christian works at a winery (not one in the areas we visited) and is well versed in Chilean wines, history and culture. On the way to the wineries, he gave us information on the wine and the winery as well as the history of Chile and day to day life in Chile. He seemed to know someone at every winery we visited and made sure we were well looked after. At each of the wineries, he introduced us to the winery tour guide, collected us after the tour and confirmed our lunch reservation at the restaurant. He was also very helpful selecting wines which we bought to enjoy on our South American cruise. He made sure to find us the best wines and the best years and as we drank the wines on the cruise, we appreciated his selections. You could not have a better team to do wine tours from Santiago and we consider them more than just tour guides, we consider them our friends.
翻译:我和我的妻子通过 Maipo Valley Wine Tours 预订了 2 个私人葡萄酒之旅(Maipo Valley 和 Colchagua Valley)。我们在新西兰、澳大利亚、加利福尼亚和加拿大尼亚加拉进行过葡萄酒之旅,这些智利之旅绝对是我们迄今为止所做的最好的。如果我们可以给他们 10 颗星(满分 5 颗星),我们会的,因为我们无法想象我们的体验会更好。
我们通过电子邮件与 Juan 制定了两次旅行的详细信息,他为我们安排了 3 个酒庄和每天的午餐。胡安很容易相处,并且乐于提供有关圣地亚哥住宿和饮食以及当地习俗的信息(小费、预订晚餐的最佳时间、旅行物品)。胡安建议的每个酒庄的感觉都略有不同,从大型和现代到小型和更亲密,每个酒庄除了参观酒庄本身和品酒(大多数人数不超过 5 人)外还提供一些其他服务,例如驾车游览葡萄园或在导游的带领下步行穿过庭院或花园或收集当地文物。和酒庄一样,胡安每天预订的两家午餐餐厅也各不相同。两家餐厅的食物都很棒,但其中一家是一家非常现代的户外小酒馆,俯瞰着酒庄,而另一家则位于一栋历史建筑内,我们在俯瞰花园的大阳台上用餐。
第一天,我们遇到了出色的司机 Filipe 和知识渊博的葡萄酒导游 Christian,他们的英语都说得很好。 Filipe 是一位出色的司机,确保我们在所有旅行中都保持充足的水分、舒适且准时。克里斯蒂安在一家酒庄工作(我们参观的地区没有一家),精通智利葡萄酒、历史和文化。在去酒庄的路上,他向我们介绍了有关葡萄酒和酒庄的信息以及智利的历史和智利的日常生活。他似乎认识我们参观的每个酒庄的某个人,并确保我们得到很好的照顾。在每个酒庄,他都向我们介绍了酒庄导游,参观结束后接我们,并确认了我们在餐厅的午餐预订。他还非常乐于助人,为我们挑选了在南美游轮上享用的葡萄酒。他确保为我们找到最好的葡萄酒和最好的年份,当我们在游轮上喝葡萄酒时,我们很欣赏他的选择。你不可能有更好的团队来进行圣地亚哥的葡萄酒之旅,我们认为他们不仅仅是导游,我们认为他们是我们的朋友。