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 [...]
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 [...]
WILLIAM 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 rules that didn’t allow even the best producers to make the very best wine the way they wanted to make it. Rules are great, [...]
GARAGE WINE & Co.: LIKE IN THE MOVI(E)
After the incredible festive, horny and ear-splitting day at TRABUN in ‘Rockinoa’, my friendly host Sergio Avendaño Rojas, a.k.a. the drumming winemaker, drove me some place on the highway to Santiago… No idea where exactly, my head was still trabundungunging the whole way… I was exhausted, but happy that I could sleep somewhere just 3 [...]
