A Free Wine Encyclopedia!The San José de Santiago brand is a brainstorm operation based on the high quality grapes of Chile’s Pacific coast. You have, no doubt, seen and/or enjoyed the excellent fruits that arrive during our winter in North America from Chile. I have been relishing these treats since childhood. The green grocers in my family used… read more »
In 1987, with their eyes focused north on the U.S.A., an already very successful Chilean wine company created the Villa del Mar brand. The Mitjans family had been producing wine from French grape varieties transplanted to Chile’s fertile farmlands for over seventy years. Their Viña Valdivieso line, besides including excellent table wines, featured Chile’s largest… read more »
What would happen if: a) California’s leading Consulting Oenologist, Andre Tchelistcheff, formed a partnership with; b) the Dean of the School of Economics and Business Administration of a prominent university plus; c) a major Napa Valley vineyard owner and; d) a seasoned wine marketing professional with 20 years experience? They call it Domaine Tchelistcheff. One… read more »
The Vina Los Vascos winery lies sheltered in its own private viticultural paradise, the 4900 acre Caneten Valley, about 90 miles south of Santiago, in Chile’s climatically-endowed Colchagua region. Don Pedro Gregorio Echenique, a knight of the Order of Santiago, built the winery in 1750. It has stayed in his family ever since. The soil,… read more »
Although the label reads, “Robert Allison”, this wine is a product of the Vina Santa Carolina winery which was founded in 1875 in Chile’s most famous wine producing district, the Maipo Valley. As one of the country’s “Big Four” wine companies it maintains 2,450 acres of premium vineyards under its control. The winery is serious… read more »
(Editorial forenote: It pleases me to see how often [and unexpectedly so] Paul chooses these wonderful wines from Chile as club selections. I have been a long time fan of Chilean wines. They often represent bargain values. L.T.) The Errazuriz Panquehue Winery (their slogan is “once you have tasted our wines… you’ll want to learn… read more »
Now I’m off camera, now I’m on camera. Okay folks, this is something else, okay? You know I taste a lot of wines, they come through here, I taste it, taste it, taste it. There’s a lot of junk and then something really strikes me as really good, and then there’s not enough for the… read more »