The Global Wine Industry

Cool video Richard! Thanks for putting this together.

Last year we had a great time at the Catrala winery in Chile with Felipe Rodriguez. This year was another beautiful day. After two days of early morning fog we in Vina del Mar, the sky was clear this morning...

Chile has to export a lot of wine because it produces more wine than it consumes domestically. It takes a lot of work as is very challenging for wineries to get their wine in front of consumers in a foreign market–at a hotel, restaurant, supermarket, etc. ...

Thanks so much to everyone who was a part of The Global Wine Industry’s study abroad class–students, planners, guides, and hosts. Chile’s wine industry has proven it’s ability to make world-class wines. The In...

I was excited to taste through some Chilean pinot noir, so I got 4 bottles at the supermarket in Santiago. Chile’s climate is very similar to California’s, so there are a lot of cool coastal regions. Pi...

If you were to guess the 6 red varietals that a Chilean wine retailer carries the most of, what would you guess? Cabernet sauvignon, carmenere, merlot, syrah, pinot noir, malbec...

We had an interesting meeting with Sven Bruchfeld from Movi today, the organization that is trying to gain support from some of the 8% of Chilean wineries that are not part of Wines of Chile. Movi is a winery organization in Chile for small wineries whose owners manage the winery...

Wines of Chile is the promotional organization that represents most of Chile’s wine companies. I participated in Chile’s blogger tasting the last two years and they were fun! Af...

After seeing WordPress blogs from Wines of Chile, Movi, and Patricio Tapia I hope that the class recognizes the importance of digital content and the Internet in wine pr, wine marketing, and wine communications...

We had a great presentation about Capel’s Chilean Pisco from Javier Marcos, Export Manager from Capel. Our guide/sommelier Claudia Olmedo also helped with the presentation. ...

It’s true, at Concha Y Toro winery today we did a tasting and Millennials preferred the carmenere. ...

Many thanks to Wines Of Chile (@WinesOfChile) for inviting us to the 7th Annual Wines of Chile Awards today...

We met with Pro Chile today. It was a great place for the group to start to learn about the global wine industry. We were given a presentation on Chile’s in general and on Chile’s wine industry in particular. At...

We’ve got a great wine business itinerary lined up. Thank you Austral Group (@australgroup)! Wednesday, Jan. 13 ProChile (main site in Spanish), Masako Noriwa, Sectorialist. This will be a good first stop for everyone to get maps and information about Chile’s wine regions. @P...