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.
Lean wines with high acidity
Weather Conditions
The mild conditions of winter and early spring were followed by fine weather in late spring, producing a food flowering. Most of summer was cool and dry, although July saw some rains.
lean: Lean wines are slim, rather streamlined wines that lack generosity and fatness but can still be enjoyable and pleasant.
Sharp, acidic, lean wine - can result from unripe grapes.
tartaric acid...
The dominant acid in a wine.
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.
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); ...
Aligoté, the 'second' grape type of white Burgundy, which generally produces rather thin and lean wines, which can be refreshing and nervy but little more.
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.
Viognier (Vee-ohn-yay) - Long a seldom-seen grape used only in the rather rare French Condrieu and Chateau-Grillet, this white grape is gaining considerable attention as a varietal in California and Southern France. It makes a light, lean wine ...
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 ...
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