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3 Mar 2010 The images below have just been sent by José Manuel Ortega on his arrival at his O Fournier winery in Maule. I have interspersed most of them with Derek Mossman Knapp's... |
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Michael Cox, director of Wines of Chile in the UK, sends this information about how to contribute to the Chliean earthquake appeal: Following on from my email of 28 Feb about the earthquake... |
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Chile has by far the largest average winery size of any wine producing nation, and until recently capital was so very definitively in the hands of a small number of powerful families that... |
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On Monday we published a list of the wines that won trophies in the 7th annual Wines of Chile Awards, judged for the first time by an all-Canadian panel. We can now reveal the results... |
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19 Jan - Small updates below but more complete results and Chilean news will be published, once Wines of Chile has sorted out the vintages! The 7th annual Wines of Chile... |
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See also Richard on why Chile isn't boring . They say that Don Melchor is foremost amongst Chilean wines. They also say that the Chileans are an unassuming and reticent people, and a... |
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Until recently, I had always viewed Chilean wine as a bit like vacuum-packed pasta: dependable and functional but hardly exciting. On cursory inspection it seems generic and homogenous, lots of... |
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Australians may be surprised to learn that such a senior figure in their wine industry as Brian Croser has accepted the invitation of one of Chile's largest wine companies Santa Rita, who lost... |
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From £5.99/£7.99 Find Casa Marin, Cipreses Sauvignon Blanc 2008 I went to the annual Chilean tasting in London a couple of weeks ago and was struck forcefully by... |
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(Those of you who feel that, what with this and our recent tasting notes on German Pinot Noirs, we are concentrating too much on the red burgundy grape, cheer up. On Thursday I'll be... |
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This was the scene at last week's Wines of Chile annual generic tasting. In London we're in peak season for generic tastings, with Argentina this week and South Africa early next month.... |
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From £3.79, $14.99 and €12.52 Find the Fournier In hot, humid weather, what could be more agreeable than a really sleek, racy, cool, refreshing Sauvignon Blanc with lots of... |
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The surprisingly good quality of the 2008 vintage currently on offer from Bordeaux has prompted comparisons with other good, recent vintages, of which the revered 2005 is the most obvious... |
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Last night Eduardo Chadwick of Viña Errázuriz in Chile staged his so-called ‘ Berlin tasting’ for the eighth time, and the first time in the UK, whereby his top wines are compared blind... |
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I couldn’t resist an occasional glance at René Merino, president of Wines of Chile, during the sixth annual Wines of Chile Awards dinner in Santiago on 15 Jan. The day before, the... |
