Chilean wine

Chilean wine
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Chile has a long history of winemaking, going back to the conquistadores who brought grape vines with them in the mid 16th Century and planted vineyards.

Chilean Wine Guide
West of the Andes, Chile's climate varies from the heat of the arid, rocky, mountainous desert to the north and the icy, Antarctic expanse in the south.

Chilean wines are superb with balance and elegance; those from Argentina show intense colour, powerful fruity aromas, complexity and smooth, round tannins
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Nothing against Chilean wine, it stands on its own merits. But, in the last decade, good wine and a P.R. push has started to get Argentina notice from wine critics and, more importantly, wine drinkers.

While we are big fans of Chilean wines for their taste and value, we have seen far too many lists recently with just one Chilean wine on the list and it's usually inexpensive.

I had the chance to run through a series of eight Chilean wines via an online wine tasting hosted by Wines of Chile. All of the wines were either 100% Carmenere or a blend with Cab or Carignan.

Another source of inexpensive, yet good-quality Cabernet is Chilean wine. Chile has several good, widely available brands to look out for:

Santa Rita (120 $7, Reserve $12, Medalla Real $18);
Montes ($6-$8); ...

As such, Chile produces the vast majority of Carménère wines available today and as the Chilean wine industry grows, more experimentation is being carried out on Carménère's potential as a blending grape, especially with Cabernet Sauvignon.

cultivation of vine, and therefore the production of wine, and by doing so they got the result of starting many activities having the explicit goal of producing wine. Despite the presence of many estancias, that is farms, the fame of Chilean wine was ...

See also: Chile, Region, Wine, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet