VIÑA ERRAZURIZ ICON WINES SHARE THE STAGE WITH WORLD BENCHMARK WINES

Many of the Finland´s top wine tasters including sommeliers, journalists and wine buyers, converged at the Kämp Hotel on May 12th, a new Edition of The ‘Berlin’ Tasting held in Helsinki. Its purpose: to publicly demonstrate the high standard of fine Icon blends being produced in Chile by tasting them blind alongside with the wines acknowledged as the very best in the world..

The tasting was hosted by Eduardo Chadwick, President of Viña Errázuriz, who explained why Chile is a Viticultural Paradise. Joining Eduardo in the panel was Antti Uusitalo, who quoted: “It's a great opportunity to taste and compare different wines and origins; the Chilean wines showed a great quality, they are really world class'.

Also in the panel was one of the two only Masters of Wine of Finland, Essi Avellan, that said: “It was really an eye opener, specially Viñedo Chadwick".

The Berlin Tasting in Helsinki was a reproduction of the famous The Berlin Tasting, held in Germany in 2004, where the most important wine writers, buyers, and specialists tasted the 2000 and 2001 vintages, and created an historical precedent by placing two wines from Chile (Viñedo Chadwick 2000 and Seña 2001) ahead of established French classics and Italian cult wines. At the time Steven Spurrier was quoted as saying “now the world knows that Chile produces premium wines.”

Conducting these blind tastings in different cities worldwide is part of Viña Errázuriz’s global educational programme to demonstrate the world class status of Chilean wines to an international audience.