By: Mark Hancock Names like Frontera, Concha y Toro and Walnut Crest offered buyers drinkable wines at less than $10. While Chile remains a value-based market, new names are emerging and better-quality wines are now appearing on metro shelves and wine lists. Concha y Toro is probably the best known Chilean label. Along with secondary […]
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South-of-the-border Bordeaux
That’s a very short life span in wine years. The brand was built on inexpensive, mass-produced wines, as Chile and Argentina both tried to use exports to help their devastated economies. The first Chilean fine wine exported to the U.S. was Concha y Toro’s Don Melchor Cabernet in 1987. Concha y Toro is much better […]