What’s the best Chilean wine? Well, as you know wine tasting is a very subjective thing, and there are way too many wines that can fit the criteria depending on who you ask. The following compilation of Chilean wines, is a list which consists of some of the more “numerously” prized Chilean wines in the [...]
Price: Around $12 Color: Violet Red Nose: Blackberries and oak Taste: Good fruit flavor. Tannins are soft, but present. Medium body with a clean and long finish. Summary: Took some time but eventually this wine opened up. Absolutely let this wine breathe before drinking, its a bit tightly wound in the bottle. This wine originates [...]
Price: Around $7 Color: Dark red Nose: Blackberries and oak Taste: Medium bodied. Tannins are not there at all. A bit too much oak on the palate. Summary: This is a table wine, and an ok one at that. For the price, I recommend going with a Gato Negro or one of Trader Joe’s [...]
Price: Around $7 Color: Pale yellow Nose: Grapefruit Taste: Dry, young fruit with a not so pleasant acidity. Summary: I found this wine to be a bit abrasive. Feels underripe all around. This will be useful in my kitchen for cooking. Good dry body will be great for sauteeing and deglazing…but not drinking.
Price: Around $10 Color: Dark red-violet Nose: Floral, menthol, and strawberries Taste: Good acidity with smooth tannins. Good fruit flavor. Round in mouth. Smooth finish. Summary: I tasted this wine twice, first at room temperature and later after cooling for an hour. Without a doubt, the cooling really brings this wine together. At room [...]
Price: Around $9 Color: Clear pale yellow Nose: Citrus fruit and green apple Taste: Medium bodied with a nice crisp fruit flavor. The taste lingers pleasantly on the palate. Round and smooth. Summary: For being a non-malolactically fermented chardonnay, I really found this to be a pretty nice chardonnay. Soft and delicate on the palate [...]
Price: Around $11 Color: Clear pale yellow Nose: Pineapple, peach and tropical fruit Taste: Dense in body with good acidity. Nice minerality which really shines when this wine is serve chilled (not cooled, but chilled). Remove from fridge and place it in the freezer for a good half hour before serving and keep in ice [...]
How to Make Chilean Empanadas It is accurate to assume that most Chileans put their own little unique touches on their empanadas recipe. This recipe will show you how to make Chilean Empanadas in a fairly classic fashion. In Chile lard is still used in traditional cooking, and it doesn’t get much more traditional than [...]
Price: Around $7 Color: Purple violet Nose: Oak, black pepper, blackberries Taste: Round in mouth. Silky with soft tannins. Summary: A drinkable, soft Carmenere from Chile. Its not long on the finish but it won’t kill your palate either. Actually, pick up the Chocalan, which I reviewed last week instead. I really want to try their Suyai [...]
Price: Around $11 Color: Deep cherry red Nose: Strawberries and tobacco on the nose. Very aromatic. Taste: Medium bodied with mellow tannins. Little bit of spice and smoke on the palate. Summary: I’ve had Carmenere wines where the taste was hard to distinguish from a Merlot. Not here, the Carmenere fruit is distinct in presence. [...]
Price: Around $4 Color: Dark cherry red Nose: Blackberries Taste: Smooth and round with good fruit flavor. Nicely jammy. Summary: Feels like this week has been my recession wine tasting week. Two wines in the $5 class. The Xplorador and now the Gato Negro blend. But with Chilean wines, you can’t let the price fool [...]
Price: Around $6 Color: Deep burgundy red Nose: Cherries and plums Taste: Medium bodied with nice notes of brandied cherries. Summary: Given the price and the fact that I had a bad experience with a recent Xplorador Cabernet, I wasn’t expecting much out of this wine. I was pleasantly surprised with this Malbec from Concha y [...]
Price: Around $7 Color: Very pale yellow Nose: Pineapple and melon Taste: Very soft on the palate and round. Gentle fruit flavor. Good acidity. Summary: I was taken aback by the softness of this wine. Its long on the finish and very smooth, missing some of that citric acidity that often accompanies some chardonnays. I [...]
Price: Around $19 Color: Dark cherry red Nose: Mature berries, cherries, and black pepper Taste: Very round and silky, buttery even. Nice intensity and refreshing palate. Summary: Produced in Chile’s Casablanca valley, this Pinot Noir is high in alcohol content, 13.9%. That’s not really a bad thing, and in this wine, I hardly noticed it. [...]
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