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The Romance Of Chilean Wines

坐落于南美洲西南端的智利,地域狭长,东倚安第斯山脉,西濒太平洋,南接南极洲。并且日照长,白天酷热,夜间寒冷。得天独厚的地理条件和宜人的地中海气候为智利葡萄的生长提供了有利的条件。智利的气候对葡萄树的光合作用帮助很大,晚上的低温又给予了葡萄树充分的休息,这是促成葡萄成熟、色泽香气宜人的最理想条件。另外,智利天然的环境也使得葡萄很少受到病毒的入侵,如此好的种植环境,全球都很少见。事实上,除了得天独厚的地理环境外,真正值得智利骄傲的是它的葡萄酒文化深受法国的影响。

Chile’s position as a truly renowned and serious fine wine producer is still a work in progress.The country rockered into the collective conscious of trade and consumer alike in a very short space of time and is now one of the market’s stalwarts. However,like most New World countries,the rapid rise built on reliability and accessibility has left the other messages about terroir and history to catch up. A quick search among Chile’s best producers soon reveals myfiad wines based on characteristics such as grape variety,region or specific vineyard or all three ideally and what will also become apparent is that these are wines for ageing too another important trait in anything claiming to be fine wine. Another striking fact is that so many of the wines listed here are based on or at least use Chile’s "native" Garmenere,a grape sometimes rather maligned but also championed by the like of Peter Richards MW and Tim Atkin MW. Not that Chile’s aptitude for growing the big international grapes should be ignored.At a recent seminar on Chilean wines run by Santa Rita,Australian consultant Brian Croser even voiced the opinion that Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon is even more distinetive than Napa Cabernet and pointed to the main varieties such as Merior,Cabernet Sauvignon Carmenere and Cabernet Franc as Chile’s backbone".