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Tim Atkins enjoys Maurizio Garibaldi's wines #timatkinmw during his trip to Chile. Scores wines: Sauvignon Blanc 94, Rosé or Syrah Malbec 92, Red blend of Malbec, Syrah: 95.

The Slow Wine movement in Chile: https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2015/09/chile-gets-new-niche-wine-association/

Jancis Robinson Wine of the week: Close de Luz "Massal 1945" Carmenere

James Suckling reviews and expounds on the greatness of serious Chilean wines here

Cool websites to check out below.

http://www.rawwine.com/

https://www.facebook.com/SlowVino/

Check out these articles from Vogue and Domino magazines by clicking on one of the links below:

Why Wild, Chemical-Free, "Natural" Wines Are Taking the Industry by Storm

The Truth About Natural Wine Here’s why you should make the switch to a natural version of your favorite varietal.

If you can understand spanish fairly well, you can hear Stephano's excellent explanation of how alluvial terraces are important to quality grapes.

Since 1580 (at least) Chileans have been making wine. See the interesting events that led to the French focus of Chilean wines in Liam's Chilean Wine Time Line.

Fungal symbionts help grapes produce flavor! This is a technical paper about strains of fungi that live symbiotically inside grape vines. All plants have fungi living inside - either between or even within cells. We call such fungi endophytes (endo=inside; phyte=plant). The striking thing is that these fungi produce a wide variety of molecules that help - or alter their host plant's chemistry: Different strains of endophyte mean different chemistry.

Fig 1. Heat-map and clustering of biochemical changes after the inoculation of different strains of fungal endophytes, in both leaves and berries of grapevines.Heat-map were drawn according to the response indexes (RI) values (S3 Table), and each row represents a biochemical variable and each column represents a fungal strain treatment. RI values were centered and scaled in the row direction to form virtual colors as presented in the color key. Biochemical parameters that showed a similar response to the inoculations of fungal endophytes were clustered together.