Fernando Almeda has always seemed to me a bit like the Paddington Bear of the wine world – outwardly calm, matter-of-fact, businesslike and undramatic while inside he has this fun-loving,…
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Wine in Chubut & the world’s southernmost vineyard: Otronia Terroir Talk interview Juan Pablo Murgia
by Amanda Barnes | updated November 20th, 2021,Otronia is the world’s southernmost vineyard, at parallel 45 in Chubut in Argentine Patagonia, which comes with a fair share of challenges, as winemaker Juan Pablo Murgia explains in this…
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Sommelier Masterclass: The old vines of South America
by Amanda Barnes | updated July 22nd, 2021,South America is home to some of the oldest productive vines in the wine world and has a wealth of vineyards over 100 years old. In this Sommelier Masterclass on…
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Digging into Chile and Argentina’s terroir potential with Pedro Parra
by Amanda Barnes | updated November 20th, 2021,Chilean-born Pedro Parra is one of the world’s leading terroir experts with a PhD in Terroir from Institut Agronomique National in Paris. Taking into account the relationship between geology, geomorphology,…








