Topic: Chile
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - You probably know, or think you know, that fine wine gets better with age. But how do you know that? It is probably not by tasting a large number of fine wines of various vintages. Instead, you're ...
PALMILLA, Chile (Reuters) - Last month's devastating earthquake destroyed 125 million liters (33 million gallons) of Chilean wine -- and with it a little piece of the country's heart. Wine serves as a proxy for Chile's ambitions. Although high in Latin American ...
Earthquake ravages infrastructure lifeline for Chile's important fish and wine sectorsThe tsunami that hit this coastal city sent 50-ton fishing boats crashing onto land and demolished its port — wiping out the $40 million in business that courses through the local economy ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - As the death toll in Chile climbs to near 800, the toll from the 8.8-magnitude earthquake on one of its largest exports, wine, was still being assessed on Tuesday. "The impact on the infrastructure was considerable as ...
As the world grits its teeth and grabs another glass of something to chase the blues away, South American wine producers are contentedly watching exports bounce. International wine sales from places like Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Peru are up in the first ...
Gain an Appreciation For Chilean Wine By Paul Mcindoe Since the introduction of the Spanish vine in the 16th century, Chile has gone on to become one of the world's most famous wine producers. Although often overshadowed by its European competitors, Chilean ...
Organic wine is increasingly popular, in spite of the fact that few people know what the term actually means. The rules seem to be strict but variable, work differently from country to country, and are monitored by a bewildering number of autonomous ...
We have recently been offering many French wines, mainly from the intriguing new regions that make some wonderful bottles, usually for about half of what you would pay for similar quality in better-known areas. The present excellence of what used to be ...
THE COMPLEX and pleasing taste of a well-made wine results from a cocktail of many chemicals mixing it up during fermentation. But why and how they manage to produce such a beguil-ing drink is something that's long stumped scientists. It's a secret ...
'Seventy-five centilitres of fun' is how the Australian producer Bob McLean describes a bottle of wine. The more time I spend tasting, drinking and writing about the stuff, the more I agree with him. Wine can be wonderfully complex, but for all ...