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Chile Weekend Brief: March 6th-7th
Chile helps Chile
The 25 hour Chilean telethon called “Chile ayuda a Chile” (Chile helps Chile) raised $30.1 billion pesos ($59.2 million U.S. Dollars) over the weekend. The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has pledged up to $10 million dollars to Chile from the United Nations fund for earthquake relief. “Chile helps Chile” aims to build at least 30,000 temporary...
Entrepreneur star from Silicon Valley invests in a Chilean vineyard to produce pinot noir wine
Kevin Harvey (left) with Javier Meza and Jeff Brinkman. Source: Rhys Vineyards
The American entrepreneur, Kevin Harvey, has created over a dozen technological enterprises in the United States and is the owner of the Rhys vineyard in California. Harvey has developed more than a dozen software web sites enterprises, sold to companies such as Yahoo, AOL, Kodak, among others. Only in 2007, he sold the...
It’s Wine O’Clock: Two party-worthy bargains
IT’S WINE O’CLOCK!
Alvaro Covarrubias is a partner at the boutique Casas de Maule Estate Winery in Talca, Chile. He also lives in Wellington, New Zealand and in Hanoi, Vietnam for part of the year.
This column is about experiences and connecting readers to their inner passion for wine.
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Wine O’Clock: Maule Valley treasures and a Cuvée worth revisiting
EARTHY …. WELCOMING
Bustamante Reserva 2006. D.O. Maule Valley, Chile. 14% Alc. Natural cork. CH$3000 / US$ 5.50. Silver Medal Cata D’Or Grand Hyatt Award 2007.
Technical info: Blend of Cabernet Sauvignon 50% / Carmenere 35% / Merlot 15%. Harvested the 3rd week of April. 22,000 bottles made for the Reserva and 3000 bottles for their Ultra Premium Mantum wine; all numbered bottles.
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Economics: To Uncork or Not to Uncork
by Eduardo Thomson, The Pulse Guest Writer
The few times I’ve been the recipient of a good quality wine (which from my perspective refers to any wine that costs more than 40 or 50 dollars; as we shall see, my standards are not the highest), whether as a gift or in some crazed state whereby I decided to part with a few extra pesos, I’ve had to use superhuman strength to convince my lady to not...
Wine O’Clock: A Summery Chard and a Red for the Forest
IT’S WINE O’CLOCK!
Alvaro Covarrubias is a partner at the boutique Casas de Maule Estate Winery in Talca, Chile living half of the year in Wellington, New Zealand and in Hanoi, Vietnam.
This column is about experiences and connecting readers to their inner passion for wine.
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Wine O’Clock: Personality can go either way
By Alvaro Covarrubias, Staff Writer
ELEGANCE: Vina La Rosa Don Reca Limited Release Cabernet Sauvignon 2005. D.O. Cachapoal Valley, Chile. 14.5% Alc. Natural cork. CH$5000 / US$9.10
La Rosa Estate started in 1824 when the land was bought from Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chile’s first elected president. Their co-founder Manuel Ossa Covarrubias was a distinguished Senator of the Conservative Party,...
Food & Drink: It’s Wine O’Clock!
Alvaro Covarrubias is a partner at the boutique Casas de Maule Estate in Talca, living some months during the year in Wellington (New Zealand) and Hanoi (Vietnam), tending to his wine distribution business.
Alvaro is also a regular contributor to wine blogs, printed publications and he co-hosts a wine radio show in Santiago. He can’t stand wine snobs.
His column “It’s Wine O’clock!”...
FOREIGN WINE INVESTOR SHOPPING IN CHILE?
andeswines.com
This week, AndesWines.com confirmed a daring strategy which expects to reveal the interest by Argentinean and foreign wine investors in wineries and vineyards in Chilean Limari, Maule and Bio-Bio valleys. At this point, Argentinean/foreign and Chilean investors in Mendoza are crossing the borders into Chile in order to launch their wines, and a higher number of investors are expected...
