{"id":2393,"date":"2015-07-31T21:55:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T21:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/31\/report-from-looking-back-at-don-melchor\/"},"modified":"2015-07-31T21:55:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T21:55:22","slug":"report-from-looking-back-at-don-melchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/31\/report-from-looking-back-at-don-melchor\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from: Looking Back at Don Melchor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2392\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Melchor_2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Melchor_2010.jpg 216w, https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Melchor_2010-164x300.jpg 164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/>(April 29, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong><\/em> A lot can be said about Concha y Toro &#8230; they were first established in 1883 and the first winery to become public in 1933.&nbsp; They were the first on the New York Stock Exchange (1994), bought Trivento in Argentina in 1996, partnered with Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1997 to form Almaviva.&nbsp; They acquired Fetzer \/ Bonterra (in California) in 2011 and they partnered up with Manchester United in 2010 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Their wines are in 147 markets, 70% of their production gets exported; they have 30% of their domestic market and make up 35% of Chilean exports.&nbsp; They have 10,750 acres planted, which is second largest and between the years 2011-2013 Drink International named them the #1 most admired wine brand in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Chile is the perfect place to grow grapes and is one of only 2 countries free of phylloxera &#8230; So why is Chile so perfect? Because of 4 natural barriers: the desert in the north, the Pacific to the west, Antarctic to the south and the Andes Mountains in the east.<\/p>\n<p>So what brings them to Toronto on this fine April day? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.ca\/2015\/07\/report-from-looking-back-at-don-melchor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to see the why Concha y Toro was in town and the wines we tried<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(April 29, 2015) &#8230; A lot can be said about Concha y Toro &#8230; they were first established in 1883 and the first winery to become public in 1933.&nbsp; They were the first on the New York Stock Exchange (1994), bought Trivento in Argentina in 1996, partnered with Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1997 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}