December 2011

The Virtual Sommelier was designed to help consumers choose wines according to various meal occasions. Each recipe was designed and prepared exclusively for the Cono Sur wines featured on the website by a professional sommelier-chef team. In addition to recipes and their “perfect match” wine for every occasion, the website features alternative options with their [...]

December 2011

This year’s International Wine & Spirit Competition in the United Kingdom proved to be hugely successful for Cono Sur and its 20 Barrels Limited Edition Sauvignon Blanc 2010. Not only did the winery win Chilean Producer of the Year, but its prized Sauvignon Blanc was chosen Best in Class for its category and was also [...]

May 2011

The harvest season began in Early March at Cono Sur and will be in full swing through May. Each year, harvest festivals are held throughout the country and the first of the year took place the weekend of March 5th in Santa Cruz, part of the Colchagua Valley.  The festival featured Chilean music, crafts, food, games [...]

November 2010

September was an important month for Cono Sur´s Single Vision Riesling 2009 not only because it won a Decanter International Trophy, but also because the award acknowledged Cono Sur’s unique spot as a top producer of Riesling in Chile.   Riesling is a variety most commonly associated with Germany and France´s Alsace region, but Cono Sur was [...]

May 2010

In January, Cono Sur launched a new variety for its 20 Barrels Limited Edition range: a Syrah, a red variety that comes to complete the catalog of wines in this Ultra Premium range. 20 Barrels Limited Edition was created in 1996 from the selection of the top 20 Pinot Noir premium barrels produced during that [...]

January 2010

Pinot Noir has the reputation of being a hard to grow vine. It requires a special weather and a particular kind of terroir where to grow, as well as a very carefull manipulation at the wineries. Therefore, is not easy to find it in any place around the world. But, where does the Pinot reputation [...]

November 2009

We talked to four professionals from the Cono Sur team who have been tremendously involved in the company’s Carbon Footprint calculation, in order to know their thoughts and appreciations: María Elena Martinos – Marketing & Sustainable Development Manager – Guillermo Sánchez – Winemaker – Gustavo Amenábar – Agricultural Director – and Gregorio Maulén – Santa [...]

September 2009

Every day we can find the word “organic” on all sorts of products, from food and drinks to clothes and furniture. Organic is rapidly being consumed all over, and therefore world demand increases through different aspects of everyday life. In this same direction Cono Sur Vineyards & Winery already has a range of wines, which [...]

June 2009

Just like in 2007 and 2008, great quality will be appreciated in the 2009 vintage. We again had a rain-less year throughout all the harvesting season, very luminous, with mid to high temperatures during the day, and cold at night. With these conditions the word “Botrytis” wasn’t pronounced in any of our valleys; it was in [...]

April 2009

When talking about Rosé wines we become conscious of all the myths and beliefs regarding their composition and effects. We also realize that we don’t really know that much about Rosés, as we would about reds and whites. How are they produced? Why do they have that pinkish colour? Are they sweeter? Should they be [...]

January 2009

This amazing red wine comes from the Colchagua Valley, which has been worldly recognized as a natural cradle for Merlot, as the climate there is temperate all year round and a marine influence acts as a moderating factor for both hottest and coldest yearly temperatures, as well as for daily oscillation pattern. The different weather [...]

November 2008

It’s always a great idea to have a sommelier nearby when choosing which wine you’ll drink. But who are these wonderful people who know so much about food and wine? Let’s start from the beginning, which like many things goes back to the middle ages, when the word was firs used. It has a French origin, [...]

March 2008

The obvious difference between still and sparkling wine is, of course, its bubbles. This extraordinary fizziness has become, through the years, synonymous of luxury, elegance and glamour, but most of all, celebration. Any excuse is important enough to crack open a bottle of sparkling wine, but the common denomination on all occasions at which corks [...]

January 2008

Cono Sur 20 Barrels Sauvignon Blanc was distinguished in many extraordinary ways during 2007. At the “Decanter World Wine Awards” the 2006 harvest was awarded an International Trophy, which is the ultimate accolade for it’s chosen as best Sauvignon Blanc in the world. This same wine picked up 93 points at the prestigious American specialized [...]

September 2007

For clarity’s sake, an organic wine is basically a wine made from organically grown grapes, meaning they were farmed and harvested entirely without the use of man-made chemicals, whether in the form of fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides or fungicides. Organic culture is a way of going back to those natural aspects of life, to our [...]

June 2007

It is by default the grape of the French Burgundy region. Those who love to draw parallels, never fail to talk about Pinot in voluptuous, sybaritic, even sexy terms.  To non Pinot fans the analogy sounds more than a bit radical, and they tend to dismiss it as infatuation with a favourite wine, which is [...]

January 2007

It’s a hot summer in Chile and at times like this Sauvignon Blanc has a way of naturally coming to mind. Being this our first 2007 newsletter, it might not be a bad time to do a variety profile, considering that Sauvignon Blanc gave Cono Sur some of the greatest awards and press of 2006, [...]