Wines of Chile Awards

The results are in for the 4th annual Wines of Chile Awards a WinesofChile.org. If you are like me than you love a good bottle under ten bucks and you are willing to spend irrational amounts of time searching through the Chilean wines at your local wine shop. The most exciting catagories for myself these days are the award winning Syrahs and Carmeneres. Here is an interesting site about Carmenere in Chile. Oh that reminds me that I just picked up a 2005 vintage of my favorite $6 table wine, the Vina Calina Carmenere Reserve. I should be dropping $20 on a Syrah soon...perhaps the Montes Alpha 2003, Porta Winemaker's Reserva 2005, or the Casa Lapostolle Las Kuras 2004. Stay tuned...