To me, Chile’s Santa Rita (which I visited in Alto Jahuel as part of a media jaunt last year) can best be summed up in one long, run-on sentence. Established in the late 1800s on a former farm that at one point sheltered 120 soldiers and has its own chapel; olive, almond, and fruit tress…
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Friends Of The Devil (Concha y Toro Premium Recent Releases)
Ostensibly, vinous Chilean powerhouse Concha y Toro is a budget-minded wine lover’s dream. With five major facilities across the county, and twenty million cases produced annually, they have pretty much nailed the tasty-and-clean-and-varietally-correct-juice-for-very-low-prices thing. But this is me, so of course we’re not going to talk about that, right? Nope. What we’re going to talk…
The Great Big G*ddamn South American Wrap Up!
Whew! When I agreed with South American PR firm Brandabout to join them on a wine-touring excursion to Chile and Argentina, I never expected to come back with enough material to fill a novella. But that’s more or less what happened – and that’s after shelving the idea for about five more articles from the…
A Search For The Soul Of North American Wine Writing (Via South American Wine)
I think traditional American wine-writing may have totally jumped the shark. Yeah, I am actually going there. And yeah, it will probably take around 1100 words. You see, last week marked my (extremely) long-overdue second contribution to Nomad Editions’ iPad wine magazine, Uncorked. The long-overdue part is entirely my fault – things have been busy,…