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Article: Wine
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 18, 2009
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FOOD & DRINK Que syrah, syrah WINE COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR
The last time I saw Alvaro Espinoza, Chile's leading organic
winemaker, it landed me in a mountain of steaming dung. It wasn't on
purpose - we were on the Colchagua Valley estate where he makes
Emiliana's wines; and his four-wheel drive got stuck and so we had
to be pulled out by a tractor. I wondered if Charles and Camilla
would suffer a similar fate when they visited him at Viedos Emiliana
Organicos in Casablanca recently. No such luck. Pictures showed a
buttoned-up Prince and well-coiffed Duchess shaking hands with the
charismatic winemaker.
Espinoza has been one of the leading proponents of sustainable
vineyard methods in Chile, ...