PRESS TRIP CHILE – APRIL 2010 – CONO SUR
I had the chance to visit Chile for the second time in September-October 2009. 3 weeks of traveling, discovering, meeting wonderful people, tasting hundreds of wines, from ‘pretty drinkable but not...
View Article2010 PRESS TRIP TO CHILE: MONTGRAS PROPERTIES
I visited MontGras in September 2009, and had a great time. That was before the terrible ‘terremoto’ (earthquake). It was for me quite a relief to come back in April 2010 and see that despite the...
View ArticleAPRIL 2010 – PRESS TRIP TO CHILE: VIÑA MAIPO
Instead of visiting the Biluco Vineyard as originally planned, we met the staff of Viña Maipo at the Concha y Toro Degustation Center in Vitacura (Santiago). Not really a surprise, as Viña Maipo is one...
View ArticleAPRIL 2010 – PRESS TRIP TO CHILE: PÉREZ CRUZ
I visited PÉREZ CRUZ in April 2010 for the second time. This one was quickly sandwiched at the end of the day on the way to Santa Rita Casa Real, where we would have dinner and spend the night before...
View ArticleAPRIL 2010 – PRESS TRIP TO CHILE: SANTA RITA / CARMEN
My second visit to SANTA RITA was again a great pleasure. We slept at the very cozy hotel Casa Real, all in Hispanic colonial style. The hospitality, the service, the rooms, the food and the drinks...
View ArticleAPRIL 2010 – PRESS TRIP TO CHILE: CONCHA Y TORO
CONCHA Y TORO (CyT) is a very big company, one of the 10 biggest wine companies in the world, the biggest in Chile. As every big company, the range of wines varies van commercial, drinkable but not...
View Article2010 PRESS-TRIP TO CHILE: … ODFJELL
On our way back to Santiago we visited the ODFJELL winery in Maipo Valley. This winery was founded by a Norwegian ship-owner, Dan Odfjell from Bergen. Dan Odfjell More than 25 years ago he discovered...
View ArticleWILLIAM FEVRE: THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’
WILLIAM FEVRE CHILE was one of the pioneering French-Chilean joint-ventures, more than 20 years ago. William Fèvre is a Chablis specialist who just had enough of those stupid and suffocating French...
View ArticleTASTING THE WORLD IN MORE THAN 700 WINES (6)
Three days long, the small city of Waddinxveen was the Dutch wine capital. More than 1100 visitors during the WORLD WINE DAYS… More than 100 wine producers from all over the world with more than 700...
View ArticleCHILEAN WINE TOUR 2012 IN AMSTERDAM (6)
During the Chilean Wine Tour event in Amsterdam, not less than 26 wineries were presenting their wines to the Dutch trade, press and restaurant world. This year, the offer was very good and the average...
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