A Winery That Still Felt Like a Family Project
To be honest, my relationship with Corazón del Sol started before Corazón del Sol even existed.
My first real steps into the wine world happened long before I studied enology. I worked in a wine shop with my father, and when we closed it, I moved to The Vines of Mendoza. Back then—around 2006–2008—The Vines was still in its early days, and I was there while the land was being acquired and the larger vision was turning into something real. I knew Michael Evans and the owners, and I watched projects being born from the construction stage, not from a press release.
Understanding The Vines of Mendoza
If you’ve never been, The Vines isn’t “just a winery.” It’s a private-vineyard community: owners buy parcels, plant and farm their vines, and the in-house team helps them produce small-lot wines. Some owners keep their wines within that system. And in rarer cases, they build their own standalone wineries inside the same masterplan—sharing the landscape, but operating independently.
An Independent Project Inside a Larger Ecosystem
Corazón del Sol is one of those rare, independent projects inside the larger ecosystem. And I’ll be honest again: when it was still “a project,” it didn’t grab me right away. The name felt strange to me, and the winery itself didn’t instantly click. Then it opened, I started visiting, and it completely won me over.
The Story Behind the Name
Corazón del Sol belongs to Dr. Madaiah Revana, a U.S.-based cardiovascular surgeon originally from India, and the name is exactly what it sounds like: his world is the heart, and Mendoza is the sun that pulled him into wine. But whatever you think about the name, the wines do the talking.
Because that’s the real reason we choose Corazón del Sol: the quality is outrageous.
It’s a small operation, focused and serious. You go in expecting a “nice boutique stop,” and then you taste and realize you’ve found one of those rare Uco Valley jewels that people don’t always see coming. No spectacle. No over-designed experience. Just a winery that puts everything into what matters.
Another reason I like bringing the right guests here is the human scale of it. Corazón del Sol is still small enough that more than once you show up and you run into the technical team in the middle of their day—sometimes even the winemaker—because that’s simply how the place operates. You meet the winemaker not because it’s scheduled, but because they’re there, working.
A Winery for a Certain Kind of Guest
This is also a winery I reserve for a certain type of client. Not the “famous names and photos” day. Corazón del Sol is for people who tell me: We’ve tasted a lot, we travel around wine, and we want something genuinely special—something we wouldn’t just stumble into on our own. If that’s the mood, Corazón del Sol delivers.
Final Thoughts
You don’t leave without talking about the building. You leave talking about the quality—because here, that’s the whole point.
If discovering Corazón del Sol Winery sounds like your kind of experience, our private wine tours are designed to include places like this—small, focused wineries where quality, access, and human scale truly matter.
Peter Cubillos, a Mendoza-based writer and winemaker with three published books and over 20 years of experience in wine tourism.