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...Boone's Farm prices--and don't forget the hip label design. Which is why Laura Hartwig may become a very popular woman. She's the matron--and the face on the label--of the three-year-old Santa Laura winery in Chile's Colchagua Valley. The vineyard's Cabernet Sauvignons are full of lavish spice and berry flavors, with pleasant touches of vanilla and chocolate, all for just $10 a bottle. Chilean wines like Hartwig's are in demand at Wine Brats, a Gen-X club in Santa Rosa, Calif. "If we think the best wine is even...
What's more, Chile is making its first forays into the top echelons of the wine marketplace. Early this month, Concha y Toro, in collaboration with France's Chateau Mouton Rothschild, unveiled Chile's first ultra-premium red wine, a $70 Cabernet-Merlot varietal called Almaviva. It is intended to be Chile's equivalent of a premier grand cru classe Bordeaux...
...something fluffy and marketable by the manufacturer, also had a deeper significance. My left index finger was "Fuschia Pastel," which would be better described as "Daddy's Girl Pink." My right thumb was a bright "Crushed Cranberry," which really means "Fornicate-With-Me Red." My right index finger was "Cabernet," a dark crimson that screamed "Pseudo-Gothic." My left middle finger was a violent dark blue called "Camaro," which stood for "Malevolence...
...columns for the Prodigy computer network and Wine Enthusiast and Food & Wine magazines. They also feed his awesomely detailed Guide, which includes ahs and boos for 7,500 wines. Parker devotes more lineage to bottom-drawer bargains than he used to, so there is helpful advice here on $6 Cabernet Sauvignons from Chile and good-value Chardonnays from South Australia. But few readers will ever get to share his delight in $500 Montrachets that have long since vanished from the marketplace...
...wide range of microclimates, which feature coastal fog as well as baking heat. Some unprofitable and marginally successful varietals will probably disappear, at least in Napa and Sonoma. But vintners insist that they will soon be able to produce more of the premier wines consumers want -- notably Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon...