Wine tasting in Chile is a wonderful experience and without all the commercialized propaganda that you get in the states....it seems that they generally want you to learn about their wine and that they are proud of their products. After a very in depth tour of the Indomita Bodega, a fairly new winery to the valley, built in 2001, we learned that they plant roses mixed in with the grape vines, because if disease or insect attacks the vineyard it will go for the weaker vines first, which are the rose vines, and this acts as a sort of warning system. I thought it a very attractive, economical, and clever preservation system. When we started to taste the wines, they had 2 or 3 different ingredients that they had you smell first to see if you could then find the smell in the wine, for example we smelled mushrooms before tasting the merlot which brought out all the earth tones, and we smelled dried prunes and peaches before tasting the sauvingnon blanc bringing out all the citrus flavors. I have never tasted wine this way, and what a difference, I could really smell the different ingredients and it was very interactive as well. The best part was that I bought four bottles of good quality wine for under $20.00 and then we proceeded to sit on the lovely terraza and drink a bottle all the while over-looking the spectacular valley of Casablanca, which by the way is named for its' production of white wines.
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