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The best tips for storing wine bottles … especially premium wine

August 29, 2018

Do you know how wine bottles are stored? Some say that upright and others prefer horizontal. Who will be right? The complex thing in this situation is that the answer is not so simple. This is one of the most frequent questions among wine consumers. In general, the wine bottles are stored in a wine rack, wine cellar, shelf, cellar or cellar. So, the answer is complex. However, we will find an answer below. The first recommendation is that once…

Bulk Wine: the great reinvention of transport for wine

August 23, 2018

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Although, the transport of wine in bulk scale is nothing new, in recent years the transport of these has substantially improved. In the past, amphoras were the standard way of transporting wine, and oak barrels replaced them hundreds of years ago. Anyone who has studied the great wines of Europe knows that bulk transport was the most frequent way until bottling became popular at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, due to various factors such as environmental and economic…

Premium Chilean wines: the new challenges of Chilean wine for export

August 20, 2018

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In Chile, between 2016 and 2017 a series of natural disasters such as frosts, droughts, high temperatures and wildfires of great magnitude affected harshly the Chilean vintages, whose immediate consequence was 30% less collection of grape volume than registered in previous years. To this described situation must be added the complex effect derived from the implementation of the Brexit that -among other things- led to the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, and that as a first…

Chilean Harvest 2018: Wine Production increased by 35.9%

August 16, 2018

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Excellent news for wine producers was announced a few days ago. And it is that the production of Chilean wines had an increase of 35.9% compared to the year 2017. This, according to the results of the National Wine Production Report 2018 presented by the Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG, under the Ministry of Chilean agriculture. This report is prepared with the information provided by the producers, through their production sworn statements made electronically on the Service’s portal. The increase…