Chilean Wines at Franco’s

  A Brief History Chile’s wine making roots stretch back to the 1500s, when Spanish settlers first planted vines in South America. Modern Chilean wine, however, really begins in the mid-19th century, when growers imported Bordeaux varieties and wine making expertise from France. One important consequence of this exchange was the preservation of Carménère, a … Read more

From the Cellar with @Sam_WineTeacher

In addition to the weekly wine review and the various other, usually wine-related, articles I write for My Van City, I am going to include a new one that will appear from time to time.  I’m calling it, ‘From the Cellar’. It will be similar to the wine reviews, except that it will feature wines … Read more