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Winemag.com.-by Michael Schachner. – Grown in only a few of the world’s wine regions, dark, idiosyncratic Carmenère has found a comfortable home in Chile’s warm valleys.  Two decades ago, Jean-Michel Boursiquot, a French ampelographer hired to help wineries in Chile’s Maule Valley determine what grape varieties were in their oldest vineyards, dropped a bombshell on his clients. Thousands of acres that the Chileans had long thought were Merlot were actually an obscure variety called Carmenère. “Carmen-what?” the Chileans asked. Originally imported…

New York Times (News Service).-  El Bottled Asset Fund, que dirigen Mora y unos cuantos amigos, es parte de una nueva generación de vehículos de inversión alternativos, fondos con el propósito específico de invertir en vinos de calidad superior, no para beberlos, sino para obtener ganancia. Mientras la crisis financiera consumía a Wall Street en 2008, James Crol se fue a trabajar por su cuenta abandonando su empleo como director de inversiones del gestor de fondos Cohen & Steers, donde…

Decanter.com.-  Decanter has recruited some of the world’s finest wine estates, including all Bordeaux first growth chateaux, for its inaugural consumer tasting event in mainland China later this year. The first Decanter Shanghai Fine Wine Encounter will take place at the Ritz-Carlton in the Pudong district on 29 November 2014. The Decanter Fine Wine Encounter is already one of Europe’s premier consumer wine events. Now, China’s growing ranks of wine lovers will have the opportunity to experience all the excitement…