Wines of Chile

Impressing the on-trade (wine sales in restaurants, bars, hotels and pubs) is key for getting consumers to try your premium wines. If the on-trade like what you’re doing, sales are much easier and Chile can look forward to a good push in premium wine sales from its results at this year’s Sommelier Wine Awards. As [...]

Recently the influential Trade Magazine, The Drinks Business, published a great piece on Chilean wine and its diversity of expression. Delving into the history of Chile’s wine industry and focusing on the increasing diversity of plantations up and down the country, the feature praises Chile’s terroir allure as ‘dazzling’. Chile may well be known throughout [...]

As the name suggests, the Bacchus wine tasting in Madrid, Spain, is a wine competition with such high quality wines that they would even tempt the Gods. With an elite panel of judges comprising Masters of Wine, sommeliers, journalists and winemakers, the week long tasting (15 – 19 March) showcased wines from across the world, [...]

Whether you like it not, wine competitions matter. They influence the consumer and if a wine scores well it can sell out in minutes. So as Korea’s most important wine competition opens for entries, Chile is being called upon to take the opportunity to represent itself with some fantastic wines. Wine Challenge is a blind [...]

Above: External Affairs Minister José Moreno, President Piñera and General Secretary Cecilia Perez at the Wines of Chile stand. Promoting Chilean wine to an international forum, Wines of Chile had a valuable presence at the recent CELAC-UE Business Summit on January 25th and 26th. The bi-annual summit is designed to help attract Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) [...]

China (Guangzhou) International Wine & Spirits Exhibition was launched in 2005, when tariffs on imported bottled wines were reduced from 43% to 14% as part of China’s WTO commitments. This tariff reduction quickly spurred the steady growth of imported wines from both the Old World and the New World. In just a short period of…

The spring festival will celebrate the pairing of Chilean wine and food with two festival style receptions including an afternoon trade tasting and evening consumer event. The event will feature multiple food stations with talented chefs creating exciting Chilean styled dishes, and a cocktail competition highlighting Vancouver’s top bartenders. The festival will once again play…

WoC USA has designed an small intimate tasting highlighting the Boutique wineries of Chile, those exporting less than $2 million dollars in 2012.  We will also have an Icon Wine Bar and Old Vine Carignan table where we will feature top Icon and Old Vine Carignan wines from all wineries. The Pequeñas tasting is scheduled…

There are some wine markets that are pretty unique in the world, Nova Scotia is one of them. An island province on the East coast of Canada, they have quite a large young population and are quite densely populated. Alcohol is almost exclusively sold by the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSCL), typical of the Canadian [...]

A world-renowned photographer is portraying Chile’s wine world in a new light. Former rock and skateboard photographer Matt Wilson might be the bad boy of wine photography, but his emotive pictures are certainly turning heads and gaining him accolades along the way. The winner of the Born Digital Photography Wine Award 2012, has a refreshing [...]

As Chile’s most-talked about young sommelier, Marcelo Pino is making a name for himself in the industry after winning Best Sommelier in Chile in 2011 among other accolades. Born in the coastal surf town of Pichilemu, Marcelo started his journey into wine through food. After training as a chef and swapping food for wine with [...]

As one of the greatest authorities on Chilean wine, and Latin America’s only Master Sommelier, it was a natural choice to have Hector Vergara as a judge for this year’s Annual Wines of Chile Awards (AWOCA). He accompanied a largely Asian panel to taste and score 615 wines in different categories and was a returning judge [...]

As one of the judges for this year’s Annual Wines of Chile Awards (AWOCA), Fong Yee Walker from China shares with us her perspective on Chilean wine in an interview with Amanda Barnes. Having grown up in China and England, Fong Yee is a Wine Educator and has been an international judge for wine competitions [...]

As one of Japan’s leading wine consultants and specialized wine writers, Yumi Tanabe was invited to form part of this year’s Annual Wines of Chile Awards (AWOCA) judging panel. She has her own wine school teaching throughout different cities in Japan and has written a handful of wine books. Amanda Barnes interviews her to find [...]