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Grape 100% Carménère [car-min-YEHR] Facts Oh, Carmenere! What happened? You had such potential and there were such high expectations for you! There’s no doubt that Chile hedged their bets on Carmenere doing well, but I think it almost turned into a “novelty grape”, much in the same way as Pinotage in South Africa. As much buzz as their was surrounding Carmenere (as recently as a few years ago), the hype seems to have fallen…
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A wine named Chilensis, has created quite a stir in the East, after it was revealed that its name loosely translates to “f*cking nuts”. In the same vein, it has been reported that Château Latour may not be performing as well as it should based compared to other Bordeaux first growths, as its name translates as “to fall down”. Local demand has apparently soared for Chilensis, pushing prices up prices by HK$10 within a matter…
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Norwich-born Ian Hutcheon (NB: I KNEW it would be a Brit behind this!) has released a Cabernet Sauvignon called Meteorito, aged with a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite from the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. The “extra-terrestrial wine” was created at Hutcheon’s Tremonte Vineyard in the Cachapoal Valley in Chile, which he bought in 2009. “I’ve been involved in wines and astronomy for many, many years and I wanted to find some way of combining the…
Read MoreI haven’t seen acting that wooden since….ermmmm…..actually, I’ve never seen acting that wooden!
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Grapes 65% Cabernet, 20% Syrah, 8% Merlot, 7% Carmenere Facts In 1960, a relatively unknown gentleman by the name of Agustin Huneeus burst onto the Chilean wine-scene. He purchased part of the Concha y Toro winery operation, became the winery’s CEO, and is credited with turning it into the largest wine producers in the country. By the 70’s however, things in Chile had gotten kind of crazy! Pinochet had overthrown the Government, and Agustin…
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