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Wines from Chile
by tammy on August 9, 2006
However, in this article by Michael and Jean Muckian, they make some excellent points about why these wines seem so popular all of a sudden. They believe it has more to do with those of use tasting wine than the actual vintages produced by Chile wineries.
Read more Spirited Glass: Don't let Chilean wines' low prices fool you:
To say wines from Chile have come of age may raise eyebrows among that country's winemakers and the importers who know them. In point of fact, Chile has been successfully producing wines for longer than the United States has been a country, much less a wine-producing one. [...]
Perhaps it's not the Chilean wine industry, but the world's wine consumers who are coming of age in their appreciation for wines from this rail-thin, mountainous South American country. That growing awareness delights Maria Luisa Errazuriz, wine export manager for Chile's Veramonte Estate.
Errazuriz, in Madison recently to promote the Veramonte line, knows the struggle her country's wines face. Although Chilean wines were popular in the U.S. in the late 1940s as European growers recovered from World War II's ravages and the U.S. wine industry had not yet emerged, they had for too long been a low-cost commodity, a cheap date in an industry growing more sophisticated with each harvest.
New winemaking practices and the involvement in Chile of world wine powerhouses like Californians Kendall-Jackson and Robert Mondavi and the French chateaux Mouton-Rothschild and Lafite Rothschild have helped improve the country's wines. The challenge now, Errazuriz said, is to change public perception of Chile as merely a low-cost wine producer.
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