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Wine: Chile’s red revolution (Independent) Back in 1994 when I

Wine: Chile’s red revolution (Independent)
Back in 1994 when I first went to Chile I’d have looked in vain for wines from the syrah grape or its New World equivalent, shiraz. I might have found some grapes, but the first cuttings arrived in the country only at the end of the year before. And Chile’s first syrah, the Errazuriz Syrah Reserve, wasn’t bottled until 1996. Since then, the progress of wine styles based on the Rh ne Valley’s