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Analysts project that international wine prices will fall by the “harvest” 2018

February 22, 2019

All those people who love wine, especially those Premium or export wines, will have good reasons to offer during the coming months of this year, since the prices of several geographical areas will fall. Input prices are falling in many cases, but the prices of certain varieties and qualities remain, analysts said. For example, the prices of generic wines from Spain and Italy are decreasing due to a large harvest in 2018, while the bottles from Argentina have become less…

New technologies that will change the Chilean wine industry

February 19, 2019

Cortahojas Wines

Next, we will talk about a different topic, but one that is very important for the development of wine and above all premium wine, such as Premium export wines. All this, to face the challenges that are coming for the industry, since we face a latent risk that is the climatic change and that is already causing that it changes the form in which the plants are behaving and that we have greater incidence of the diseases. That is why…

Chilean wines export exceeds US $ 1,500 million and China is the main destination

February 4, 2019

Cortahojas Wines

The beginning of 2019 brings good news for producers and exporters of Chilean wine. This is because the exports of bottled wines closed the year 2018 with a commercialization of US $ 1,508 million, figure that realizes that sales were almost even compared to 2017, year in which the industry stood out with a record of US $ 1,520 million in shipments. According to data from the Central Bank of Chile, shipments reached US $ 1,622 million FOB. The above,…

The valleys of Chile … where the sauvignon blanc is reborn

January 31, 2019

Cortahojas Wines

The central valleys of Chile protect a secret that spread throughout the country. It was here where the history of sauvignon blanc began and where today some of its best examples are found. Towards the end of the 1980s, a vineyard in Casablanca began planting the first vines of sauvignon blanc. What was formerly known as sauvignon, was actually a kind of poor brother or distant relative known as sauvignon vert or sauvignonasse. The oenologists realized that the new clonal…