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...Chile has made its mark by offering decent wine at low prices. The country's wine exports have soared from $50 million in 1990 to half a billion dollars this year. Chile is now the third leading wine exporter to the U.S., behind France and Italy, and its giant Concha y Toro winery, in the Maipo Valley, is America's No. 2 imported brand...
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...
...basis in fact. For the majority, Pinochet is the past, and people don't really care whether he is the commander in chief or a Senator. He only has a meaning for the extreme right and left. We have complete confidence in our country, government and armed forces. J.F. CONCHA Santiago...
...ethnic, environmental or political, depending on whom you talk to, but mostly it is fashion: big, bold and hot this summer. It is Native American jewelry -- anything from a $15 pair of earrings to a '40s concha belt that might go for $40,000. Like many fads, Indian jewelry was not born yesterday. In the late '60s and early '70s, the carved stones and silver appealed to young rebels; Woodstock was full of Indian finery. Later, when artists and Hollywood celebrities like Steven Spielberg took up Santa Fe and Southwestern decor in a big way, jewelry, along with rugs...
...Wine Spectator, the leading American journal of wines and spirits, last year gave an impressive 88 (on a scale of 100) and a best-buy rating to Vina Los Vascos' 1984 Cabernet Sauvignon, which sells in the U.S. for a mere $5. Other bargain-priced Chilean wines, including Concha y Toro and St. Morillon, have also scored well in U.S. tastings...