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Down To Earth: New World Wine-Producing Countries Working Together at Prowein

Five New World wine-producing countries band together at ProWein 2010 for “Down to Earth”

Published: 2010-03-17

Anthony Gismondi on Chile’s Reputation & Carmenere

Canadian winewriter Anthony Gismondi was among the judges who tasted hundreds of Chilean wines during the 7th Annual Wines of Chile Awards held in Santiago in January. He’s back home now and sorting his way through his notes, impressions, and memories. Especially with regard to Carmenere. And as always, he’s telling it just the way [...]

Published: 2010-02-01

Down to Earth at ProWein

Argentina, California, Chile, New Zealand, and South Africa will band together to present a rousing series of seminars on New World Wine production at ProWein.

Published: 2010-01-20

2010 World’s Best Sommelier to be Chosen in Chile!

The 13th Association de la Sommellerie Internationale (ASI) “Best Sommelier in the World” competition will take place in Chile in April 2010.

Published: 2010-01-12

Chile Comes Out ON TOP– Again!

British wine critic Oz Clarke chooses his Top 250 wines, and Chile’s Viña Falernia’s 2005 Syrah Number Tops the List! The first chapter lists Oz’s Top 40 wines of the year and Chile takes pride of place with the Viña Falernia Elqui Valley Syrah 2005 listed as his number one wine. In fact, another Chilean cool climate wine makes the top 10 with Viña Leyda Garuma Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2007 from the Leyda Valley at number 7 in the ranking.

Published: 2009-01-08

The 6th Annual Wines of Chile Awards are upon us!

This year ten US judges—Robert Bradshaw, Patrick Comiskey, Linda Murphy, David Rosengarten, Michael Schachner, Josh Raynolds, Sandy Block, Stuart Roy, Alder Yarrow, and Kevin Zraly—have agreed to tune their palates to hundreds of Chilean wines on January 12–14, 2009.

Chilean wineries will submit up to 6 wines each that are available in the US market [...]

Published: 2009-01-08

Viña Montes 20 years on…

How time flies. Twenty years have passed since Aurelio Montes, Douglas Murray, Pedro Grand and Alfredo Vidaurre founded Discover Wines in the Curicó Valley, although the name was quickly changed Viña Montes. New partners joined the group over the years and now includes Chilean businessmen Sergio Barros and José Antonio Garcés and family.
Viña Montes, known [...]

Published: 2008-11-28

6 Chilean Wineries among Wine & Spirits Top 100

The editors at Wine & Spirits taste a lot of wines each year, and just as certain wines stand out, certain wineries do too. This year when they looked back over the year’s tasting notes, 6 Chilean wineries stood out for their consistently high scores and excellent work. Interestingly enough, all are located in cool [...]

Published: 2008-09-14