See also my tasting notes on the current Vigno wines. As someone who writes wine reference books, I am truly scared by Chile and its unparalleled pace of change. I asked two people to...

Last week I had the chance to taste the first lot of old-vine Carignans from Maule in Chile being launched under the name, and relatively strict appellation-like regulations, of Vigno....

See also Derek Mossman Knapp's more heartening tale of another aspect of the current Chilean wine scene, also published today. When I visited Chile in 2009, I came back...

A common complaint about the Chilean wine industry is that it is dominated by a handful of large wine companies. Indeed, the admirable new statistical compendium Global wine markets 1961–2009...

Last week's announcement of the results of the 8th Annual Wines of Chile Awards, the so-called 'Bicentennial Edition', got rather submerged by all those Burgundy 2009 tastings notes, I'm...

See this guide to our recent South American coverage including many tasting notes One of the most interesting features of this year's generic tasting of Chilean wines described in...

See this guide to our many South American tasting notes South America has become an invaluable source of great-value wine, but wine lovers' view of the continent as a wine supplier is...

See this guide to our recent   South American coverage including many tasting notes There’s a great apocryphal story explaining why the Spanish speak with a lisp. It is...

3 Mar 2010  The images below have just been sent by José Manuel Ortega on his arrival at his O Fournier winery in Maule. I have interspersed most of them with Derek Mossman Knapp's...

Chile has by far the largest average winery size of any wine producing nation, and until recently capital was so very definitively in the hands of a small number of powerful families that...

On Monday we published a list of the wines that won trophies in the 7th annual Wines of Chile Awards, judged for the first time by an all-Canadian panel. We can now reveal the results...

19 Jan - Small updates below but more complete results and Chilean news will be published, once Wines of Chile has sorted out the vintages! The 7th annual Wines of Chile...

See also Richard on why Chile isn't boring . They say that Don Melchor is foremost amongst Chilean wines. They also say that the Chileans are an unassuming and reticent people, and a...

Until recently, I had always viewed Chilean wine as a bit like vacuum-packed pasta: dependable and functional but hardly exciting. On cursory inspection it seems generic and homogenous, lots of...

(Those of you who feel that, what with this and our recent tasting notes on German Pinot Noirs, we are concentrating too much on the red burgundy grape, cheer up. On Thursday I'll be...