We tasted 571 wines over the previous week from 11 international locations, with the final batch of Chilean samples taking our palates to the lengthy, slender strip of land to the west of the southern Andes and its booming variety of choices, whereas we continued to find what Spain has to supply in its new vintages.
The highlights from Chile have been primarily from two established producers – Montes Wines and Viña Morande. Apparently, they share one thing in frequent. Their founders, Aurelio Montes Sr. and Pablo Morande, respectively, are each thought of pioneers of the Chilean wine scene – Montes Sr. due to his involvement within the premiumization of Chilean wines, and Morande as a result of he put Casablanca on the wine map within the Eighties, displaying the world that excellent wines might come out Chile’s coastal area. Extra vital, each founders have by no means ceased exploring the potential for brand new varieties in new landscapes, with nice success.
Drinkability is the phrase for among the most spectacular wines from Viña Morande, and plenty of of them come from La Aventura sequence – off-the-beaten-path choices by youthful winemakers constituted of pais, cinsault, grenache, marsanne, roussanne, viognier, malbec, petite sirah and petit verdot.
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