Last Friday, we got to visit a winery! Chile's natural barriers (the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean) make it a great country for wine-making. These barriers also allowed Chilean vineyards to stay free of a bacteria/virus that killed Carmenere grapes all over the world! Therefore Carmenere wine can only be made in Chile. Unfortunately, because it is winter here, no grapes were on the vines.
I was hoping to learn a lot about wine and wine-making, however, our tour guide unfortunately was not a sommelier nor knew anything about how wine is made (even though he had been working there for 7 years!) He did know a bit about the history of the vineyard, which was a bit hard to understand with his heavy Chilean/English/German accent.
We got to sample two types of wine, red and white (I forgot the names of the wines I sampled, oops!). The white wine was delicious! The red wine...was a little dry (and not oak-y enough for my taste, hehe, jk!)
Where the vines usually grow.
Barrels and barrels of wine.
Our souvenir/tasting glasses
¡Salud!
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