​Introducing Ñuble – Chile’s newest wine region

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Chilean agronomist Max Morales reports on this new and interesting – possibly complicated and challenging – development. 

After many years of political and economic efforts, Chile has a new wine region called Ñuble, previously part of the Bío-Bío region, with three subregions: Valle del Itata, Punilla and Diguillín. 

The Bío-Bío region loses the Itata Valley and from now on it will have a great challenge to promote the ancient and re-emerging vitiviniculture of the area comprising San Rosendo, Laja, Nacimiento, among others, as well as the entire strip along the river Bío-Bío, which runs from the Andes to the...