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10 of Chile’s top red wine varieties
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10 of Chile’s top red wine varieties

Helen Conway
January 5, 2019
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Chile is now the world’s fourth biggest exporter of bottled wine and its wine industry is more dynamic and varied than ever before. Winemakers are now producing dry and sweet, still and sparkling, white, rosé, red and even the odd amber-coloured wine from more than 70 different varieties. However, red wines are still very…

Blind tasting Chilean red wines
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Blind tasting Chilean red wines

Helen Conway
August 13, 2017
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I’ve set myself the challenge over the next few weeks of blind tasting the most common types of Chilean red wine until I can tell them apart in a blind tasting. I’m doing this to become a better wine professional and also to help me pass the terrifying WSET diploma exam when I’ll have to…