Wines of Chile

Before the recent Wines of Chile seminar was even finished, the room was humming with excited chatter, and the participants clearly couldn’t wait to begin discussing new ideas with their colleagues. On Thursday August 23, Chilean wine industry professionals gathered in Santiago to attend a presentation about the United States wine consumer market and new [...]

Master of Wine and BBC personality Peter Richards recalls his experience hosting Wines of Chile’s recent Icon Wines tasting as “a fascinating few days” in a new article on his popular blog. Co-hosted by terroir expert Dr. Pedro Parra and writer Carlos Cabral, the event was held August 8th in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Richards enjoyed [...]

  Forbes Magazine recently featured Chilean wine as an example of economic progress in South America. The “repeatability” of Chile’s wine industry is fundamental to its success, and to the success of Chile’s entire economy, according to Forbes Magazine columnist and Bain & Company author Chris Zook. “[Chilean wine] has become a metaphor for me [...]

An article recently published in The New Zealand Herald has admitted that Chilean wine “could topple Kiwi”! Jo Burzynska writes, “Most years I’ve managed to attend the major Wines of Chile tasting held in London, where of late I’ve started to see sauvignons that should strike fear into the hearts of any New Zealand sauvignon-makers [...]