chilean bulk wines

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…