A significant proportion of the wine professionals I met in Toronto recently were on the point of taking off for a trip to Chile. I asked one of them, John Szabo, for his impressions of the trip and thought you too might enjoy this neat overview of recent changes there. Szabo is a Master Sommelier, wine writer and consultant sommelier (see www.thecva.ca).
I had been under the mistaken impression that Chile was, well, pretty boring, and that things hadn't really changed much in about 500 years; maybe a little more Cabernet and a little less País. Instead I found...