It’s no great secret that Chile offers some of the world’s best value wines. We have extensively covered the country for the past several years and in that time the value and quality of Chilean wines has grown by almost every metric. Although everyone knows about its signature carmenere, new and exciting examples of syrah and grenache also abound. But when it really comes to squeezing exceptional value from goodness, nothing beats Chilean cabernet sauvignon.
Chile is known as a vine-growers paradise, with a wide array of different climatic subsections, soil types and altitudes. For world-class cabernet sauvignon, the modern hub is Puente Alto, just south of the country’s capital, Santiago. It’s where the likes of Viña Don Melchor and Almaviva do their magic, making some of the best and most expensive cab savs in the country.
