To: NautiNurse
Chile has produced a lot of fine wines in recent years because winemakers have discovered that central to southern Chile are excellent wine-growing regions with conditions like that of Napa and Sonoma Valley in California.
To: RayChuang88
"Chile are excellent wine-growing regions with conditions like that of Napa and Sonoma Valley in California."
- I read somewhere that there is a grape growing valley on the western side of the Chilean Andes which is the only place in the world where the vines still have the root stock that was otherwise wiped out world wide in the late 19th. century.
The mountains apparently protected the vines from the wind born parasite infestation.
So, if you want to know what a true Cabernet Sauvignon wine must have tasted like back then, you can still buy wine from this Chilean valley to find out.
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