Category Archives: CHILE

#StealThisWineColumn

Posted on November 23, 2015 by intoxreport

Later today I’m going to participate in a hashtag wine tasting, which is a unique marketing gimmick that gets a whole lot of wine people on Twitter and Instagram talking about a given product at a given cyber-location on a … Continue reading →

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Aurelio’s Goose Lays Golden Eggs

Posted on September 15, 2015 by intoxreport

Finding balmy, extracted South America in shivery, high acid Finger Lakes is a treat; getting a dose of genuine insight into this sprawling and largely misunderstood wine continent?  Priceless. Wouldn’t have happened without an Irish lass from Brooklyn, either—Jen O’Flanagan … Continue reading →

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Carmen Carmenère: Sixteen Bucks Of Brilliance

Posted on January 30, 2015 by intoxreport

I won’t tarry o’erlong on what the Chileans have done for Carmenère—roughly on par with what Blue Book Modeling Agency did for Norma Jeane Mortenson and Robert Johnson did for a beat-up six string. Enough to say that people who … Continue reading →

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Santa Rita’s Coming To Town

Posted on December 21, 2014 by intoxreport

Santa Rita—among Chile’s most beatified producers—has stuffed my stocking with an quartet of wines that should make the naughtiest holiday party a little bit nicer. And ideally, the other way around. Chile’s history of wine production dates to the 16th … Continue reading →

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Carménère For The Holidays

Posted on November 28, 2014 by intoxreport

The sum total of my social media prowess is writing something inflammatory and hitting ‘Tweet’. The convoluted netherworld of hashtags, mobile device aps and tweeps retweeting tweets I leave to my technological betters, meaning anyone who is still in high … Continue reading →

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From The Halls Of Montes’ Uvas…

Posted on August 11, 2013 by intoxreport

To the shores of triple wheeee! …That unforgivably awful pun must in no way detract from the quality factor of the  trio of tremendous wines sent me by my Celtic cab/carménère compatriot Jen O’Flanagan, who has lent her advocacy to … Continue reading →

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What’s In A Name, Other Than ‘Insane Fornicating Testicles’? Ask The Chinese…

Posted on February 10, 2012 by intoxreport

What is the deal with Chinese people and wine, anyway?  In 2011, Commieville wine sales rose by 20%–most of it intended for the gullets of the PRC’s upwardly-mobile millions—and meanwhile, Chinese investors have kicked the price of Bordeaux futures through … Continue reading →

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