As a Chilean I feel proud of our wine industry, the prices and quality that we can enjoy. I am not an expert but I appreciate the time you dedicate to this explanatory video towards the world consumer. Chilean wine is great. Thank you, sir for explaining our wines. We in stores and supermarkets can get an excellent wine for a small quantity of pesos, imagine the quality of the wines you can enjoy in your countries, I don't know the prices but without any doubt you are going to get an excellent wine with a unique personality and flavor. Saludos.
Thank you for the kind message. I really do love Chilean wine and am very happy to see them succeed on the world stage; so, I'm happy to do my part to promote understanding and awareness of Chile's wine culture and industry. Cheers!
drinking a Chilean carmenère right now and loving it. Learned that cab Franc is a progenitor; making it a half-sibling of merlot and cabernet sauvignon ( I think). Flavorful with burnt almost coffee nibs... very soft and great mouth feel, but has enough structure too. Really liking it ! and a great value as well.
Chilean Carmenères can really be terrific, though I've learned that, broadly speaking, price is an indicator of quality. This does remind me that I probably should do a cast on Carmenère sometime soon. Thanks for commenting. Cheers!
It is important to remark that the movement of winemaker trying to produce high quality wine using País variety has grown along with the rediscovery of forgotten growing regions. All of this as more and more smaller producers appear in the Chilean wine scene
This my first comment, but I have been enjoying your informative casts for severals. A suggestion for future cast : A comparison between California and French Chardonnays. MERCI!
Excelente, señor! I truly enjoyed this video, as I do with all of them on your channel. Your explanation and content is always accurate, to the point and easy to understand. To me, that detail about Miguel Torres Estelado was impressive, and totally worth mentioning. Wine culture in Chile is still in its initial phases and developing at a snail’s pace. Technical terms and deeper understanding are normally avoided due to fear or embarrassment of “not knowing”. Hopefully, this type of information may be well used and people will understand that learning will never hurt. It will only lead to toasting… Thank you again, Sir.
Thank you for the compliments and the insights into Chilean wine culture. I've always wanted my videos to be a resource for people wanting to feel more comfortable with and informed about wine so that they can make the best decisions and explore the most options they can, so I'm happy to hear they're having that effect. Thanks again and cheers!
I bought a 2014 Shiraz from the Vale del Rapel that is labeled "Estate Bottled". Any idea if that term is regulated in Chile and if so, how? It's not a very expensive bottle (6€), so I don't have any illusions about it being produced in a small high quality vineyard but it would still be useful to know. Still, the good quality of the wine confirms your point about Chilean wines being good value for the money.
As far as I can tell, Chile doesn't regulate this term. I checked Chile's official code regarding wine and alcoholic beverage production (here's a link, but it's in Spanish so it may not be helpful: www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/es/cl/cl017es.pdf) and I couldn't find any reference to it, but it's possible I may have missed something. With reference to the price of the bottle, though, remember that even in a country that regulates a term like "Estate Bottled" as the U.S. does, that could still mean the wine was mass produced from grapes grown on giant vineyards as long as the winery owns or licenses the vineyards and they're in the same geographic indication; so, the term itself is not the reliable indicator of carefully crafted, small-batch wine that it suggests. Hope that's helpful. Cheers!
El mundo hispanohablante está q arde con esto del vino. Chile y Argentina presentan celebérrimos proyectos. Aurelio Montes y Nicolás Catena no son los únicos. Mucha infusión de capital europeo. Torres está muy metidito en América del Sur. Michel Rolland (Pétrus) empezó un proyecto de malbec muy interesante hace varios años. Y las familias Rothschild y los de Grand Marnier Lapostolle llevan años desarrollando todo un universo de manejo de cepas en el Cono Sur. Un cálido y muy cordial saludo.
Muy de acuerdo con Jacqueline, Yo trabajo para Kendall-Jackson en Sonoma y el masterwinemaker ama a Chile y tenemos una bodega ahi en Colchagua! Chile es la nueva frontera vinicola del mundo!
i think is not so much about sophistication as it is about history. its difficult to get a handle on so i just drink it. just give me that 100 point rating and i am on it...
As a Chilean I feel proud of our wine industry, the prices and quality that we can enjoy. I am not an expert but I appreciate the time you dedicate to this explanatory video towards the world consumer. Chilean wine is great. Thank you, sir for explaining our wines. We in stores and supermarkets can get an excellent wine for a small quantity of pesos, imagine the quality of the wines you can enjoy in your countries, I don't know the prices but without any doubt you are going to get an excellent wine with a unique personality and flavor. Saludos.
Thank you for the kind message. I really do love Chilean wine and am very happy to see them succeed on the world stage; so, I'm happy to do my part to promote understanding and awareness of Chile's wine culture and industry. Cheers!
Think my new favorite channel for wine region education
Chilean wines are really amazing and they are winning awards all over the world¡¡Why???Quality.....¡¡
I purchased the wine you recommended at the end of this video and it was beautiful, thank you for the recommendation
I just love all your casts! Thank you!
As a chilean, I appreciate your clarity to explain about our valleys. I wish my geography teacher had that gift.
drinking a Chilean carmenère right now and loving it. Learned that cab Franc is a progenitor; making it a half-sibling of merlot and cabernet sauvignon ( I think). Flavorful with burnt almost coffee nibs... very soft and great mouth feel, but has enough structure too. Really liking it ! and a great value as well.
Chilean Carmenères can really be terrific, though I've learned that, broadly speaking, price is an indicator of quality. This does remind me that I probably should do a cast on Carmenère sometime soon. Thanks for commenting. Cheers!
Excellent Cast yet again! thank you
Thank you and thanks for watching! Cheers!
It is important to remark that the movement of winemaker trying to produce high quality wine using País variety has grown along with the rediscovery of forgotten growing regions. All of this as more and more smaller producers appear in the Chilean wine scene
This my first comment, but I have been enjoying your informative casts for severals. A suggestion for future cast :
A comparison between California and French Chardonnays.
MERCI!
beautiful explanations, thank you for the information .
Thank you for watching! Chreers!
Excelente, señor! I truly enjoyed this video, as I do with all of them on your channel. Your explanation and content is always accurate, to the point and easy to understand. To me, that detail about Miguel Torres Estelado was impressive, and totally worth mentioning. Wine culture in Chile is still in its initial phases and developing at a snail’s pace. Technical terms and deeper understanding are normally avoided due to fear or embarrassment of “not knowing”. Hopefully, this type of information may be well used and people will understand that learning will never hurt. It will only lead to toasting… Thank you again, Sir.
Thank you for the compliments and the insights into Chilean wine culture. I've always wanted my videos to be a resource for people wanting to feel more comfortable with and informed about wine so that they can make the best decisions and explore the most options they can, so I'm happy to hear they're having that effect. Thanks again and cheers!
Muy buena educacion, Gracias y que viva CHI_CHI_LE_LE!!
Amazing thank you.
You helped me a lot
Thank you! I'm glad to hear that. Cheers!
Haha! “Win freaking win”
Great info
Thanks! Cheers!
I bought a 2014 Shiraz from the Vale del Rapel that is labeled "Estate Bottled". Any idea if that term is regulated in Chile and if so, how?
It's not a very expensive bottle (6€), so I don't have any illusions about it being produced in a small high quality vineyard but it would still be useful to know.
Still, the good quality of the wine confirms your point about Chilean wines being good value for the money.
As far as I can tell, Chile doesn't regulate this term. I checked Chile's official code regarding wine and alcoholic beverage production (here's a link, but it's in Spanish so it may not be helpful: www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/es/cl/cl017es.pdf) and I couldn't find any reference to it, but it's possible I may have missed something. With reference to the price of the bottle, though, remember that even in a country that regulates a term like "Estate Bottled" as the U.S. does, that could still mean the wine was mass produced from grapes grown on giant vineyards as long as the winery owns or licenses the vineyards and they're in the same geographic indication; so, the term itself is not the reliable indicator of carefully crafted, small-batch wine that it suggests. Hope that's helpful. Cheers!
Next time try chilean pisco. Lika kappa.production god kvality
El mundo hispanohablante está q arde con esto del vino. Chile y Argentina presentan celebérrimos proyectos. Aurelio Montes y Nicolás Catena no son los únicos. Mucha infusión de capital europeo. Torres está muy metidito en América del Sur. Michel Rolland (Pétrus) empezó un proyecto de malbec muy interesante hace varios años. Y las familias Rothschild y los de Grand Marnier Lapostolle llevan años desarrollando todo un universo de manejo de cepas en el Cono Sur. Un cálido y muy cordial saludo.
Muy de acuerdo con Jacqueline, Yo trabajo para Kendall-Jackson en Sonoma y el masterwinemaker ama a Chile y tenemos una bodega ahi en Colchagua! Chile es la nueva frontera vinicola del mundo!
Next time you should mention that Chile is dominated by major commercial growers whose wines are reliable....look at the record of CyT
i think is not so much about sophistication as it is about history. its difficult to get a handle on so i just drink it. just give me that 100 point rating and i am on it...