For this year's gala wine dinner in London to raise funds for Room to Read's brilliant work spreading literacy throughout the developing world, I thought it would be fun to introduce the crowd, more used to a steady diet of boardroom claret and white burgundy, to what's been going on in Chile's vineyards (see, for example, The new Chile). I took the tasting notes below while making my final selection from wines kindly submitted for this cause.
Because Room to Read was founded in 2000 (just like JancisRobinson.com, whose history can be read here), we cheekily asked...