TASTING 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 wines for tasting. Even 3 whole days wouldn’t be enough to taste all the wines presented.
A FEW COMMENTS (6)… [...]
CHILI ON TOUR IN AMSTERDAM
In the second week of September 2011, not less than 27 Chilean wineries visited the Netherlands during their European Tour. Wines of Chile president Juan Somavia, ProChile representative for UK and the European continent Michael Cox and ProChile wine representative for the Benelux countries Christophe Desplas P. were offering backbone support to this event once [...]
A TRAGIC LOSS FOR VIÑA J.BOUCHON AND CHILE
Saturday August 13, the 38 years old export-manager of the Chilean Viña J. BOUCHON, CARLOS PEDRO LAMOLIATTE VARGAS, was driving near Curacautín on the Ruta Internacional together with his 45 years old brother Andrés Agustín. For unknown reasons, Carlos Lamoliatte lost control of his car and collided frontally with a truck. Despite a transfer to [...]
FANTASTIC QUOTE ABOUT CHILEAN WINES
I love this quote of UK director for Wines of Chile, Michael Cox, in an article written by Gabriel Savage in The Drinks Business Online (2011-07-11) about Chile reducing dependence on UK market:
“There is still huge opportunity for Chile – albeit at higher prices – as their ever more diverse and terroir driven wines still [...]
TORRES SANTA DIGNA BIGGEST CHILEAN FAIR TRADE WINERY
The labels of TORRES SANTA DIGNA wines will be soon proudly mention the FAIR FOR LIFE certification. This Chilean winery received this certification for their long and intense efforts in increasing the social responsibility towards their workers. MIGUEL TORRES CHILE has been working quite a long time already respecting the standards of the Swiss institute [...]
