Although our exports are growing, the majority of our sales are in Chile, and most of that is off-premise sales through wine shops and wine clubs. Our restaurant presence is growing, however, and we are pleased to be featured on the wine lists of a number of restaurants both in and out of Santiago. Here [...]

It’s been a very busy week, between work and Christmas preparations. The boys and I spent Wednesday and Thursday making cookies—gingerbread, spritz, chocolate spritz, snowballs, and candy cane chip. It’s only Saturday, and there are shockingly few cookies left. We’re having a seven-fish cioppino for Christmas Eve dinner (corvina, shrimp, calamari, crab, mussels, clams, andmachas, [...]

This week has been absolutely crazy! We’ve sold wine to clients in the UK and Romania, and for some time now we’ve been planning the physical export of the wine. After weeks of waiting and generally being on hold, everything came together this week for both orders. This translated into a lot of running around [...]

We had a great time pouring at the Feria Vinos de Chile last week. It was fun to chat with many old friends and also meet people trying our wines for the first time. Both our 2009 blends were very well received. And we’re seeing the first feedback in the press. In his review of [...]

Flaherty Wines is scheduled to participate in the Feria Vinos de Chile 2011, to be held in the Hotel Plaza San Francisco in the center of Santiago this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (28–30 September) from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. Ed and I will be pouring the just-released 2009 Limarí and 2009 Aconcagua blends. If [...]

Spring has arrived in the Southern Hemisphere. The days are getting longer and the sun brighter, California poppies are blooming along the roadside, and the birds are chattering in the garden again. In the winery, rising temperatures mean the start of malolactic fermentation. During winter, the barrel cellar is too cold for the malolactic bacteria [...]

Pruning takes place in the winter, when the vines are dormant. So I was a little concerned to realize that we are well into August (that translates into February for you Northern Hemisphere folks), and our vineyard still looks like this: As it turns out, dormancy is not the best time for pruning. Because the [...]