Enjoy Wine, Food, and Travel with Karl MyWinePal
This is a new wine to me. I am usually quite familiar with the wines of Chile. Cigar Box Pinot Noir comes from the cooler Casablanca Valley, made by the Sur Andino winery. The Casablanca Valley is located 75 km northwest of Santiago, Chile and is approximately at 33 degrees south latitude, which if it was in the northern hemisphere…
With the lockdown on travel due to COVID-19, I thought I’d look back at some of my trips to wine regions around the world. One of my memorable trips was to Chile in October 2009 where I toured around Santiago, the capital, then rented a driver with a car to take me the coastal city of Valparaiso and some wineries…
Chile is a fascinating country, with climate and terrain that vary from the Atacama desert in the north to glaciers in Patagonia to the south, and everything in between! From Wikipedia I learned that by surface 80% of South America’s glaciers lie in Chile. Then there are the Andes Mountains, which controls/modifies the weather coming in from the Pacific Ocean. With…
