Sur Chileno – waving a flag for the south

Sur Chileno five

A new producer group promises ever greater things for the exciting wines of southern Chile. Five founder members shown above.

In April 2020 I was due to head out for one of my regular trips to Chile and was planning to visit the more southerly ‘emerging’ regions of Itata, Bío-Bío and Malleco. There had been a development that I was particularly interested in investigating, the upcoming creation of the first union (or group of producers) from these southern regions that had joined forces to market themselves and the regions together. The group of eight producers have now launched under the...