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Winemaking in the Driest Place on Earth. Vino del Desierto is a very interesting project, in a very extreme environment. The Atacama Desert receives just a few millimetres of rain per year, and many areas of this huge sandy desert located in both Chile and Peru have not seen rainfall -
Pais is not a grape we knew anything about before we moved to Chile. The Spanish conquistadors brought it here from the Canary Islands meaning it has been growing in Chile for hundreds of years so why hadn’t we tried this wine before we got here? It is only in -
Wine Tour Shore Excursions from your Cruise Your cruise ship will have a variety of excursions on offer for each port of call. They may even have some wine tour shore excursions. Most likely these will be in large buses with a selection of your fellow passengers, and on set -
MOVI – A Different Winemaking Angle in Chile Any readers of our blog will notice we are only posting on Chile recently. Not only is there plenty to say about the vast amounts of wine and wineries in Chile but the fact is we are still “stuck” in Chile due -
Château Lafite it isn´t! We saw this winery while we were exploring the Colchagua wine region and stopped to visit, not knowing what to expect. As you can see from the photos, the thick adobe walls are not in great shape, the roof looks like it could fall in and
