CHILEAN WINE

Chilean Wines....The Chilean wine industry aims to be the #1 producer of sustainable and diverse premium wines from the New World by the year 2020. Four outstanding Chilean wines made it to the most recent Wine Spectator Top 100 wines of the year 2010.

Concho Y Toro Marqués de Casa Concha Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 from Puente Alto (Maipo Valley)

Veramonte Pinot Noir 2008 from Casablancq

De Martino Legado Syrah 2007 from the Choapa Valley

Agrícola la Viña Polkura Syrah 2008 from the Marchihue sector of the Colchagua Valley

Chile has a wonderful climate for growing grapes. Chile's climate varies from the heat of the arid, rocky, mountainous desert to the north and the icy, cold, Antarctic expanse in the south. Chile's vineyards flourish in the warm, fertile valleys that are positioned between the two areas. Many of the grapes that were believed to be Merlot have recently been determined to be Carmenère, which is a scarcely planted variety of Bordeaux.