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Article: South America Is on the Rise
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- September 23, 2009
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I consider myself part of the "Anything but Chardonnay" crowd,
at least until I taste a really great chardonnay. And I have tasted
some fine ones recently that might persuade me to give up my
skepticism toward this grape.
They're not from Burgundy (which gets an automatic pass from the
ABC crowd, anyway) and not from California, either. The chardonnays
that excite me these days come from the Limari Valley of northern
Chile. This is a region to watch: It could become the world's next
source of consistently good chardonnay.
Vines were first planted in the Limari (pronounced lee-mar-EE)
Valley in the 16th century, but only in the past decade or so have
some of Chile's great wine companies ...