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Experts anticipate a 20% drop in vintage yields 2019

April 8, 2019

Experts have anticipated that this year there will be a decrease that contrasts with the 2018 process, a period in which yields were 30% higher, compared to the complex harvests of 2016 and 2017. In Chile, the harvesting process began at the beginning of March 2019. We have been little more than a month and, although there are still areas to be harvested, some trends are already visible. Experts warn that, at a general level, a decrease of at least…

Chilean wines continue to look to ASIA: here is the future of Chilean wine growth

April 5, 2019

Cortahojas Wines

Asia has an impressive growth potential. If you are in the business of wine exports you should look to Asia, it is in that continent where the opportunities are. In China, the consumption of each inhabitant (per capita) is two liters; and 2.5 in Japan, then the growth potential is total. Then, without giving more return the future of the growth of the Chilean wine is in China. However, for Chilean producers the focus is to protect markets where Chilean…

Chilean export wines surpass their historical sales and the vintage began

April 2, 2019

Cortahojas Wines

Chilean wine brands are leaving an important footprint worldwide. Foreign sales already exceed two billion dollars; the wines are already reaching more than 150 nations and Chile is already in fourth place as a world exporter. Exports exceeded 2,060 million dollars in 2017. These days, and since a few weeks ago, grape harvesting has been taking place in Chile and, as has been the case in recent years, it has been advanced as a result of climate change. The effects…

Chilean wines export and are located in the fourth place in the world

March 29, 2019

Cortahojas Wines

The Ministry of Agriculture of Chile reported that the country is the fourth world exporter of wine with a turnover that exceeds US $ 2,000 million. International markets are not only reserved for large vineyards, large producers and large exporters, but are also available for Peasant Family Farming, which today, in Chile, wants to start associating to go out to foreign markets. At the governmental level it is valued that the Chilean wine is an ambassador of the country in…