I apologize for the long delay since my last blog posting but I have been on the road for a spat and much of it in South America doing research for my next book, an essential guide to South American wines. The first of two trips this year took me to Argentina’s Mendoza and multiple areas in Chile. There was so much to be excited about on both sides of the Andes that it is difficult to single out one sub-region or a singular varietal. What was perhaps most compelling to me as I went through my reams of notes was the sheer wealth of female winemaking talent that I encountered in Chile.

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