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SANTIAGO, July 9 (Xinhua) – The wines of Chile and Brazil were the big winners of the Catad Gold Awards ceremony, one of the most important wine competitions of the year. Latin America. today in the Chilean capital of Santiago.
The meeting was held in the Municipal Theater and recognized in the category "Best Wine of America" at "Souvenirs 2015" of the Chilean winery El Principal del Maipo Valley
The technical director of 39 El Principal, Gonzalo Guzmán, told reporters that his award-winning wine reflects the place and identity where it is produced.
The vineyard of Guzmán is located in an area of the Maipo Valley, at the foot of the Andes Mountain Range, which places its grape plantations at an altitude of between 750 and 950 meters above sea level. [19659002] "This obviously means that the wines have a different expression from the rest of the Maipo and the valleys of Chile", signal The winemaker
on "Memories 2015" detailed that it is about a balanced blend, varied between fruits, the expression of the place and a particular aging.
"Some time ago we started to use a 15-liter drum"
Guzmán pointed out that Chile being a beer producing country, it is not easy to win a competition of wine in the South American country.
"Our main market is Brazil, in Latin America then in Europe and Asia", he said
The meeting was also awarded in the category "Best vineyard of the year" at the winery Luis Felipe Edwards. ] The manager and winemaker of this vineyard, Nicolas Bizzarri, badured Xinhua that its products are present in more than 100 countries where China is a market "very important and important for us".
"We started exploring 15 years ago with our products mainly on the east coast (of China) and today we already have a distribution network that allows us to enter the country. Inside China, "said the Chilean winemaker
Bizzarri added that Chilean wine is mainly known in the world. For its quality
"Wines with intensity, lots of personality and lots of body are what Asians like," he says.
Likewise, he was rewarded with the best sparkling wine Garibaldi. Moscatel, Cooperativa Vinícola Garibaldi of Serra Gaúcha of Brazil, "Best Pisco" in Pisco Mal Paso 40 degrees Reserved of the Agricultural Society Hacienda Mal Paso of the Chilean Valley of Limarí and "Best Wine of Carmenere" in Doña Dominga Gran Reserva de los Andes Carmenere 2017 of Casa Silva Vineyard in the Colchagua Valley in Chile
"Solares 2012" of "La Ronciere" Vineyard, "Best Small Produced Wine" at "Don Ro berto red blend Limited Edition 2015", by Viña Tamm, and "Best Winemaker" at the brewery "Entre crabs Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva 2017" of Viña Cangrejos, the three award-winning wines of Chilean origin.
The rest of the recognized countries were Portugal, Argentina, Peru, Australia, Spain, United States, France, Peru and Portugal.
The executive director of the contest, Pablo Ugarte, said that in this version 23, they received more than 600 samples and 167 medals, 11 gold, 100 gold and the rest of the money.
"We have seen in the Chilean wines how carmenere has been consolidated as a highly rewarded variety, and we have seen the consolidation of Brazilian sparkling wines and wines, which have won the best sparkling wine in the Southern Cone and Argentina who had very good medals, "said Ugarte
. "From here, from Chile, the reward for the world is an important boost for promoting South America to the world," he said.
Ugarte announced in the event that Catad's Gold will host the first South American wine festival and the first Latin American wine guide that will feature the British taster Alistair Cooper, who was part of the jury in this contest version.
"A wine that has a catad gold medal is a wine that has already pbaded through a filter of an international jury according to the rules of the OIV (International Organization of Vine and Wine In this wine, it will not be lost, "he said.
In the Chilean Wine Contest, Catad's Gold Wine Awards, members of wineries from 14 countries participated.
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