26 new grape varieties identified in Bío Bío
A new research project has discovered...
Amanda Barnes is an award-winning wine journalist and expert in South American wines and regions. Based in Mendoza since 2009 she is a regular South America correspondent, critic and writer for Decanter, as well as other international wine publications, and she is the author and editor of the South America Wine Guide. She has been awarded by Born Digital Wine Awards, Millesima Blog Awards, Great Wine Capitals Best Of and Young Wine Writer of the Year. She has received a fellowship from the Wine Writers Symposium, a scholarship for the Wine Bloggers Conference, and the Geoffrey Roberts Award. She was a judge at the 2019 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).
A new research project has discovered...
Tasting exam results declared invalid...
The Peñaflor veteran is a central figure in the story of Argentina’s wine industry....
Bringing the past to life with long-lost varieties...
The first vineyard on the island of Chiloé...
One of the best in recent years, say winemakers...
Winemakers in Argentina are celebrating the end of a productive vintage...
For an undisclosed amount...
Following a collaboration with Laithwaite's Wine...
Advice from the experts...
What would lead Santa Rita, one of Chile’s biggest and most famous names, to pull up hundreds of hectares of its vines? Amanda Barnes reveals the wisdom behind the Casa Real producer’s radical next steps
We get the advice...
We ask the sommeliers and winemakers...
Devastating fires claim lives and damage vines...
What’s the next big trend in South American wine?
Explore Chile's wine country...
The year has kept winemakers on their toes...
A fantastic harvest in terms of quality...
Chinese consumers develop thirst for Chilean wine...
After five years of drought...
Vineyards lost in 'national catastrophe'...
Chilean vineyards put on 'red alert'...
Scientists close to cracking Cabernet genetic code...
Amanda Barnes rounds up the action so far...
Read on to see who has won...