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Coastal Chile: An Unfamiliar Terroir Worth Exploring
featured, Chile
, Oct 2025
Up and down Chile’s expansive coastline, vineyards are subjected to a harsh, cold climate that lends both white and red wines a distinctive profile. This report features 200 wines from Itata to Atacama, representing the diverse array of styles on offer.
Maule: The Magic of Old Vines and a Stylistic Reinvention in Chile
featured, Chile
, Jun 2025
Chile is renowned for its Cabernet Sauvignon from Maipo, but many other grapes and terroirs broaden the country’s stylistic range. Among them, the southern region of Maule presents a unique mosaic of vineyards. In this report, I review nearly 700 wines from across the country with a focus on Maule, highlighting new discoveries and revisiting key trends.
The Chilean Coast: Where the Pacific Shapes Vibrant Reds and Whites
featured, Chile
, Jul 2024
A little-known strip of Chile is producing a rich seam of distinctive, characterful reds and whites, with Cabernet Sauvignon conspicuously absent. This report focuses on Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cinsault, País and more from the Chilean coastline, where a range of delicious wines are ready to be discovered.
Chile: El Niño Brought a Slow-Motion Season with a Long Harvest Window
featured, Chile
, May 2024
Two thousand twenty-four was characterized by the El Niño phenomenon, resulting in a cool spring and a summer with erratic veraison. By March, when the harvest window opened, the grapes had barely developed any sugars. Biding your time and choosing the perfect moment were the key factors in a year with less structure and more delicate fruit flavors.
Chile: Thinking Outside The Box
featured, Chile
, Jun 2023
Readers are likely familiar with Chile’s rich, fruity reds. Beyond that, wine lovers will find a number of bottles that speak to a country with a vast range of landscapes and styles. Inspired whites and reds offer new profiles, many of which are worth getting to know.
The Harvest in Chile: A Two-Sided Vintage
featured, Chile
, May 2023
The 2023 harvest in Chile had two very different sides, depending on location. For most, it was a hot, dry year marred by forest fires in the south, from Maule to BioBio. Producers will remember 2023 as a vintage where the greatest conundrum was deciding the right time to pick.
Viñedo Chadwick: 21 Years of Cabernet Sauvignon from Puente Alto
featured, Chile, Verticals & Retrospectives
, Aug 2022
In South America, some wines tell a story while others represent an entire era. There is no doubt that in Chile, Viñedo Chadwick is one of the latter. On my last trip to the country, I had the opportunity to explore 21 chapters of that tale, from beginning to end. Here is a journey through both the style of this Cabernet Sauvignon and the history of a terroir that has earned its name in Maipo.
A Quarter of a Century in Chile: A Vertical Tasting of Seña
featured, Chile, Verticals & Retrospectives
, Aug 2022
What were you doing 25 years ago? A quarter of a century is a good chunk of anyone’s life, but time is always a matter of perspective. Whereas for some old-world producers 25 years can go by in the blink of an eye, in South America it represents an eternity. It’s hard to organize a vertical tasting that can adequately tell that story. But it is not impossible.
Chile in Transition
featured, Chile
, Jun 2022
Chile is a country experiencing major upheavals in the wine scene. This report bears witness to a wide range of regions, beyond Maipo, where new flavor palates are emerging and further identifies the current trends in classic varieties and the challenges producers face today. The result, following a tasting of 800 wines, is an increasingly complex wine map, rich in different styles, varieties and flavors.
The 2022 Harvest in Chile: A Cool, Dry Year
featured, Chile
, Jun 2022
It’s difficult to summarize a vintage in a country where coastal and mountain valleys experience very different conditions, but the numbers show that 2022 in Chile was defined by two stand out phenomena: a lack of water and associated lack of relative humidity, as well as low temperatures. In the context of a drought that has been going on for 13 years now and a 2021 winter with some of the lowest rainfalls ever recorded from Maule to the north, the lack of water and low humidity accelerated ripening processes in the same way as one sees in hot years.