Innholdsfortegnelse for No. 40 i Wine & Restaurants Magazine

Although Viña Koyle was recently born in the 2006, when Alfonso Undurraga Mackenna, together with his sons Alfonso, Max and Cristóbal, begin to search for a new terroir in order to produce high quality wines, they are the 6th generation of family winemakers. After searching through and analyzing different valleys and areas of Chile, they acquired a property of 1.100 hectares in Los Lingues, Alto Colchagua, which is located on the initial slopes of the Andes Mountains. It all started in 1855 with Francisco Undurraga Vicuña, passionate about wine and wine making, he bought a property in San Vicente de Talagante in 1882 and in 1885 he founded Vina Undurraga, with several of his wines soon achieving international awards. A premium winery from the Colchagua Valley, Viña Koyle is dedicated…

Jess Jackson, visionary winemaker and founder of Kendall Jackson, was noted for popularizing Chardonnay with his Kendall-Jackson Winery and was one of the most successful independent winery owners in the world. Known for his fearless, iconoclastic approach to business, Jess became one of the world’s most successful self-made men by taking chances in businesses that were anything but a sure thing. He started first by selecting grapes from the best vineyards in California and turning them into a small bottling of Kendall-Jackson Vintner’s Reserve that soon became the most popular Chardonnay in America. A one-time longshoreman who put himself through University of California Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, Jess became one of the best-known figures in American viticulture, as Kendall-Jackson became the best-selling Chardonnay in America for over two…

Co-founded by Dan and Margaret Duckhorn in 1976, Duckhorn Vineyards has spent almost forty years establishing itself as one of North America’s premier producers of Napa Valleywines. From its modest inaugural vintage of 800 cases of Cabernet Sauvignon and 800 cases of Merlot in 1978 to its addition of Sauvignon Blanc in 1982, Duckhorn Vineyards has crafted a tradition of quality and excellence that continues today. Fundamental to this tradition was the early, pioneering decision by Duckhorn Vineyards to focus on the production of Merlot. Though many Napa Valley wineries were using Merlot as a blending grape in the late seventies, few were exploring the potential of this varietal as a standalone wine. A great fan of Merlot since traveling to St. Emilion and Pomerol, Dan Duckhorn felt that this…

In 2001 Aurelio Montes, winemaker and founding partner of Viña Montes in Chile, visited Mendoza in Argentina. He was immediately seduced and impressed by its people, terroir, viticulture and enology, and excited by the opportunity to both learn from and contribute his own experience to a wine industry open to innovation. He saw the tremendous potential of the region and of Argentinean wines around the world. After further exploratory trips, Kaiken was founded in 2002. The origin of the name is the Caiquen, these hardy birds usually inhabit the cold, dry plains of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, where snow and frost prevail for much of the year. They migrate northward when the extreme cold of winter approaches. Caiquenes are very social and gather in groups or large flocks, especially…

We love food and wine, we want to share what is good with you! We are a group of wine and food lovers, wine and hospitality trainers, and wine and food writers, who decided to get together and create Wine and Restaurants for three reasons: 1.- Our passion for food and wine, and willingness to share. 2.- Too tired of the restrictions of current life style magazines in Vietnam, whose sole target is money, many of which (if not all) do not do restaurant reviews unless restaurants and hotels advertise, or promise advertising (forget about the claims of independence and mystery visits, our writers used to write for them, we do know!). 3.- Growing interest in Wine in Vietnam, but not dedicated media. WE ARE LOOKING FOR CONTRIBUTORS IN ENGLISH…