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Buying Chilean Wine
If up and coming winemakers, a fantastic range of wines and
great value are your thing, look no further - Chilean wine
is for you.
Great Value Wines
Following in the footsteps of the Australians who made their
mark on the sub ?5 market, Chilean wine production has shot
through the roof in recent years. So if you are looking to
spend around ?5 on a bottle of wine, you?ll find a selection
of very drinkable bottles of Chilean wine to choose from.
Designer Wines
But it?s not all about wines at the lower end of the market.
Thanks to several copper billionaires investing in
wineries, you?ll also find several pretty decent tasting
bottles of Chilean wine at the higher end of the scale.
Many top-end French Chateaux and other old world producers
have invested heavily in Chile too, and are producing
excellent Chilean fine wines. Domaine Barons de
Rothschild-Lafite, one of the big French makers, produces
the exceptional Vina Los Vascos in Chile. Not only are they
exempt from complex French wine laws when they make wine in
Chile (meaning they have free reign over the production
techniques), but the climate, soil, and fact that Chile is
virtually Phylloxera free, makes it the ideal place to
experiment and really push the boundaries of wine making.
Variety
Due to the diversity of Chile?s landscape and climate, a
bottle of Chilean wine will taste vastly different depending
on whereabouts in the country it is produced. So whether
it?s a fresh, fruity Chardonnay, a searing, pure Sauvignon
Blanc, a juicy, ripe Cabernet Sauvignon or one of the
smoothest, finest bottles of Merlot that you?ve ever tasted,
you can be sure that you won?t get bored when it comes to
tasting Chilean wine.
Carmenere
If you fancy tasting something a little different, try a
bottle of Carmenere. Carmenere used to be grown in France
but it was ravaged by disease and generally thought to have
become extinct. In the 1990?s, a professor from Montpellier
realised that about 50%PRCTG% of what people thought was Chilean
Merlot was, in fact, Carmenere and it had been imported to
Chile before the outbreak of phylloxera wiped out the
European stocks. Rather than hiding quietly in the
background, pretending to be Merlot, the wonderful grape
growing conditions in Chile has allowed it to express the
best of its characteristics and reveal itself. Carmenere is
fast developing into Chile?s signature grape and is often
described as a cross between the two great heavyweights
Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. It can vary between being
smooth and fruity, and being a dark smoky mouthful. Chilean
Carmenere is also great with a variety of foods. Try the
lighter styles with pork and roasted vegetables, whilst the
heavier numbers go wonderfully with richer darker meats.
Louise Truswell works in and writes about the wine
industry.To find out more and to choose from a range of
Chilean wine, visit www.virginwines.com
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If up and coming winemakers, a fantastic range of wines and
great value are your thing, look no further - Chilean wine
is for you.