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Chilean Wine Foodways

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A long Mediterranean strip walled by the Andes and the Pacific, historically protected from phylloxera by desert, ocean and mountain — so much Chilean vine stock is UNGRAFTED, which is unusual. Valleys from Elqui and Limarí through Aconcagua, Casablanca, Maipo, Cachapoal, Colchagua, Curicó and Maule to Itata, Biobío and Malleco. CARMÉNÈRE — a Bordeaux variety thought extinct after phylloxera, found in 1994 to have been growing in Chile misidentified as Merlot — is the signature. ⚠ AND PAÍS, the old colonial variety of the dry-farmed Itata smallholdings, is the older story, long dismissed and now revalued.

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Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • Much Chilean vine stock is ungrafted, the country having been substantially protected from phylloxera by desert, ocean and mountain. Carménère, a Bordeaux variety believed extinct after phylloxera, was identified in Chile in 1994 having been grown there as Merlot. País, the old colonial variety of dry-farmed Itata, predates both and was long dismissed. documented
  • Carménère, believed extinct in France after phylloxera, is identified in Chile having been grown there as Merlot. documented

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  • related to French documented

    Carménère is a Bordeaux variety rediscovered in Chile in 1994 after being thought extinct in France.

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