Enjoy Wine, Food, and Travel with Karl MyWinePal
Chile is blessed with perfect conditions to grow grapes; a varied climate, warmer and drier in the north, and wetter and cooler in the south. A dry climate and soil types not conducive to the phyloxera louse allow Chilean vineyards to be grown on their own rootstock, not grafted. Some say that this allows you to taste the “true” flavour…
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…
My last event at the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival was “Speaking Frankly About Franc“. I was eagerly waiting for this seminar as I really enjoy drinking Cabernet Franc. A grape that is at home in Bordeaux and in the Loire Valley. It is used as a blending grape in Bordeaux, as a minor partner to Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot….
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