413: Patricio Tapia on the New Generation of Wine in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil

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🗓️ 11 March 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Patricio Tapia is the author of the "Descorchados" wine guide to South America. He is also a Senior Correspondent for "Wine & Spirits" Magazine, responsible for covering the wines of Argentina, Chile, and Spain.

Patricio Tapia describes both the history and the future for wine in South America, looking at each generation of siginificant winemakers in Argentina and Chile, and discussing the diversity of grape varieties, winemaking methods, and regions across Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Uruguay. Patricio makes clear that each country is distinctly different, with an individual history of immigration shaping the realities for the different sectors today. And he points out some regions that may become better known for quality wines in the future.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Petri. Patricia Tapia of Wine and Spirits magazine and also the author of the Descourtchados
0:29.8	Wine Guide for South America. Very nice to have you here. Great. So you were born in Chile?
0:36.1	Yeah, I was born in Santiago in 1968. Your family were into wine or? Well, yes. my grandfather was a kind of a collector so the first
0:46.4	memories that have about wine on wine is that you know those cases arriving at
0:51.8	home that was was back in 1970 something so pretty long ago.
0:57.0	I can imagine that's a long time ago also for the Chilean wine scene.
1:01.0	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
1:03.0	I mean, although you know in Chile we have a long history on wine consumption and also
1:10.8	production the last, let's say that 30 year were the most radical, in
1:16.6	terms of change and evolution of course, you know.
1:19.5	So back in those days in the 70s, the Chilean wine scene was just primitive in many senses.
1:29.7	So people will talk about red or white and that's it and sweet and that's it.
1:35.2	On the market itself it will be like you know not many labels available and
1:41.1	for example the first time I published the Scortelles was in 1999, and I only tried like 500 samples.
1:50.0	Now it's more than 2000.
1:52.0	Originally, just something you kind of did out of your kitchen.
1:55.0	Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's the idea that came out.
1:58.0	Because at that time it was another wine guide made by
2:01.0	winemakers and it was long big group of people trying to be
2:06.5	objective about wine in my opinion that's impossible so I want to just give
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