If you are visiting Chile and found our site, its highly likely wine is a star attraction of your trip. Visit a vineyard, enjoy a meal, and take a bottle home to your friends and family. It’s also a great companion while traveling through this long and skinny nation. But the million dollar question is, […]
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One of Chile’s most prominent valleys, the Maipo valley, produces the big reds which Chile become known for early on in its commercial wine journey. Its home to some of the biggest players, Santa Rita and Concha y Toro, and spans from the flatter, hotter low Maipo up to the base of the Andes Mountains.
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Scoring a perfect 100 points with a critic is a nearly impossible feat for a winemaker, and Viñedo Chadwick, part of the extended Errazuriz family, has done two years in a row. The first recognition came in May 2016, after its Viñedo Chadwick 2014 wine scored a perfect 100 points from wine critic James Suckling.
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This week Chile’s Circle of Food and Wine Critics (Círculo de Cronistas Gastronómicos y del Vino de Chile –otherwise known as the Cronistas) announced their awards for the best of 2016’s restaurants, chefs, winemakers, culinary books and more. Keep reading to follow their picks. These awards included: Restaurant of the year, chef revelation, winemaker of
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Pitched along a row of hills which extends south from the Maipo River, the Perez Cruz Vineyard has always been high up on our list of vineyards to visit. Perez Cruz is a family owned winery which only produces red wines. Its Liguai vineyard is heavily influenced by the rocky soil of the Andes, which
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This photo is from a dinner at Flor de Calabaza, in downtown Concepcion, a local drink and casual dining spot with a mix of local seafood and ingredients from the area, with a touch of Easter Island (the chef had lived there for some time). We got things going with a bottle of this Rivera
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