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Chile has a long history of wine making, going back to the conquistadores who brought grape vines with them in the mid 16th Century and planted vineyards. Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of grapes and grape juice. ...
Conquistador (meaning Conqueror in the Spanish language) is the term used to refer to the soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under Spanish rule between the 15th and 17th centuries. ...
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A vineyard A vineyard is a place where grapes are grown for making wine, raisins, or table grapes. ...
Much low quality wine has historically been produced (often from table grapes such as sultanas), but in the late 20th Century, the export business grew very quickly, and large amounts of quality wines were produced. The most common grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère, which is often regarded as perhaps the most suitable grape for the Chilean climate. Missing image Image:Ripe grapes thumbnail. ...
Sultana can refer to: the Sultana grape the title Sultana one of multiple ships named Sultana the Sultana bird This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Cabernet Sauvignon is a variety of red grape mainly used for wine production, and is, along with Chardonnay, one of the most widely-planted of the worlds noble grape varieties. ...
Merlot is a variety of wine grape used to create a popular red wine. ...
The Carmenere grape is a wine grape variety originally planted in the Médoc region of Bordeaux, France where it is used to produce deep red wines occasionally used for blending purposes in the same manner as Petit Verdot. ...
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In international competitions, Chilean wines have proven to be among the best in the world. For example, in the Berlin Wine Tasting of 2004, 36 European experts blind tasted wines from two vintages each of eight top wines from France, Italy and Chile. The first and second place wines were two Cabernet-based reds from Chile: Vinedo Chadwick 2000 and Sena 2001. They outscored two of Bordeaux's best, Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Margaux. In the Berlin Wine Tasting of 2004, a professional blind tasting was held with 36 tasters drawn from European wine journalists and wine buyers. ...
Vinedo Chadwick is located on the banks of the Maipo River in the Maipo Valley of Chile. ...
The word sena literally means army in many South Asian languages. ...
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The vineyard of Château Margaux stands as the producer of one of the worlds greatest and most sought-after red wines. ...
Regions In December 1994, the Republic of Chile defined the following viticultural regions, also known as viticultural zones or appellations: wine grapes Viticulture (from the Latin word for vine) refers to the cultivation of grapes, often for use in the production of wine. ...
Chile is divided into thirteen regions (in Spanish, regiones; singular región), each of which is headed by an intendant (intendente), appointed by the president. ...
An appellation in its broadest sense is a name or designation. ...
- Viticultural Region of Atacama, within the III Administrative Region. Within it are two subregions, the Copiapó Valley and the Huasco Valley, both of which are coterminous with the provinces of the same names.
- Viticultural Region of Coquimbo, within the IV Administrative Region. It has three subregions: Elqui Valley, Limarí Valley, and the Choapa Valley. All subregions are coterminous with the provinces of the same names.
- Viticultural Region of Aconcagua, within the V Administrative Region. It includes two subregions, the Valley of Aconcagua and the Valley of Casablanca, Chile. The Aconcagua Valley is coterminous with the province of that name. The Casablanca Valley is coterminous with the comuna of that name.
- Viticultural Region of the Central Valley, which spans the VI and VII Administrative Regions and the Administrative Metropolitan Region. Within it are four subregions: the Maipo Valley, the Rapel Valley, the Curico Valley and the Maule Valley.
- Viticultural Region of the South, within the VIII Administrative Region. Two subregions are included: Itata Valley and Bío-Bío Valley.
III Region of Atacama of Chile is situated in the north of the country. ...
IV Region of Coquimbo is an administrative division of Chile. ...
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The Cerro Aconcagua is located in Argentina and is the highest mountain in The Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, as well the highest peak outside of Asia and one of the Seven Summits. ...
OHiggins is Chiles sixth administrative region from north to south. ...
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Santiago Metropolitan Region is a landlocked administrative region in central Chile. ...
Curicó (Black Water in Mapuche Language originally meaning Land of Black Water) is the name of a city and capital of province of Curico, concern of a Region del Maule in the central valley Chile. ...
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Trivia Chile is entirely free of Phylloxera, so its vitis vinifera grape vines do not need to be grafted. Grape Phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, family Phylloxeridae, superfamily Aphidoidea) is a serious pest of commercial grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America. ...
See also New World wines are those wines produced outside the traditional wine-growing areas of Europe and North Africa. ...
French wines were generally believed by most people to be the very best wines in the world until 1976. ...
The globalization of wine is largely a post-1976 phenomenon. ...
Reference and external link - Asociación de Viñas de Chile A.G.
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