With its many award-winning labels of carménère, cabernet sauvignon and blends of French-origin grapes, it is not unusual for Chile to be cited as an example of New World wine – all of which are not produced in Europe.
These wines are supposed to have a style characterized by full-bodied, high-alcohol, velvety-textured reds, always made from the same half-dozen French-origin grapes, most of them from Bordeaux.
However, it is a new Chile, with fresh, light reds and elegant whites, that is gaining more space every day. They are wines, most of them. . .
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