This text was written this text for the Sunday Travel section of the La Tercera newspaper on February 26, 2006 (translated here from Spanish) as part of a large calendar of wine-related parties and activities in the many valleys surrounding Santiago. Harvest is...
The final word is out. The oldest and most comprehensive guide on Chilean Wines, known to those of us who live here as La Guía de Vinos de Chile (Chilean Wine Guide), has launched its 2006 version and here are the results. For this version, more than 1,000+...
Michael Schachner of Wine Enthusiast in his article "Chile's Fresh Faces" (November 1, 2005 issue), recently profiled Chile’s newcomers, many boutique-style vineyards, who are favoring quality-driven wines and whose first vintages were all in this millennium. The “fab...
Alan York, Biodynamics master-extraordinaire looks in his mid-50s. He has thick, shiny, silver hair cut stylishly, framing his tanned and weathered face with tiny, piercing eyes. His voice sounds youthful with speech that is paused and thoughtful. There is something...
I will admit that I am somewhat “under-studied” in French wines. The problem is, for as much as great wine as Chile produces, that is all we get here. Hence, a wine knowledge deficit is inevitably created. To combat this void, I decided to go to France for Vinexpo in...
The other night at a wine dinner, engrossed in intense conversation among people in the food and wine industry in Chile, the most memorable part of the evening was perhaps the description of wine by the winemaker of Amayna (Viña Garcés Silva), Claudia Gomez. She...
“Mirror, mirror on the wall whose stand looks best of all?”. Certainly this could have been the familiar nursery rhyme that many of the 2,400 exhibitors were silently singing to themselves at the recent Vinexpo 2005, the 13th, held from June 19-23 in Bordeaux,...
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