In 2013, Montevideo, Uruguay, hosted a blind wine tasting competition. Tasters sampled Tannat wines made with a grape originating (but not universally loved) in France, now a prized export of Uruguay. The surprise winner: a Bolivian wine.
This was Bolivia’s first major gold medal.
To hear Ramon Escobar, the Bolivian American co-founder of Chufly Imports, known for Bolivian wine and spirits, say it was incredible for the judges.
“It was so shocking,” Escobar says, “that they wouldn’t give the medal to the Bolivian winery until they went. [there] themselves and verified that it was made in Bolivia. . .
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