This year’s Great Wines of the Andes USA finished with a bang in Miami with close to 800 people turning out to taste hundreds of wines and meet dozens of wine producers at EAST hotel on October 5. “Miami loves great wines and it loves great values, which is exactly what the wines of the Andes are,’ said James Suckling, editor and CEO of JamesSucking.com, organizers of the event. Suckling emphasized at the event that the outstanding quality wines of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay are exceptional values in the wine world today; consumers and trade need to pay two or three times the price for wines from other countries to receive the same quality in the bottle.
The message was the same in the other two cities, New York and San Francisco, the first stops in the country-wide tasting tour, which began on September 30. Suckling and a group of close to 150 wineries attended the four-hour tasting events. Suckling’s close friend Surahn Sidhu, the award-winning Australian recording artist, provided a sleek mix of Cuban funk and regional music to complement the events. A guitarist, bassist and vocalist for Empire of the Sun in the past, Sidhu is often on tours across the globe and just started his own new band in Australia.
With such a strong vibe and great wines, Great Wines of the Andes USA 2018 was the biggest event ever for the five-year-old walk-around tasting. Check out the video of the event and photos below.
Great Wines of the Andes San Francisco:
Around 700 people attended the Great Wines of the Andes 2018 event on Sunday, Sept. 30.
Great Wines of the Andes New York:
Alfredo Frigeiro pours Los Toneles for the first time at our event to the crowd in New York City.
Great Wines of the Andes Miami:
The Crush, the 39th-floor ballroom of East hotel in Miami, was packed with people savoring Chilean wines as well as Surahn Sidhu's music.
Video Recap:
Presenting Wineries:
Abremundos, Achaval-Ferrer, Alamos, Albarossa, Almaviva, Alta Vista, Altocedro, Anko, Aresti, Aromo, Belasco de Baquedano, Benegas, Bisquertt, Bodega Chacra, Bodega Cuarto Dominio, Bodega del Desierto, Bodega Diamandes, Bodega Estancia Mendoza, Bodega Garzón, Bodega Norton, Bodega Piedra Negra, Bodega Rolland, Bodegas Etchart, Casas del Bosque, Catena Zapata, Clos Apalta, Clos de los Siete, Colomé, Concha y Toro, Cono Sur, Cousiño-Macul, Cuvelier Los Andes, Decero, Durigutti, Domaine Bousquet, El Enemigo, El Esteco, Emiliana, Ernesto Catena Vineyards, Errázuriz, Escorihuela Gascon, Estancia, Los Cardones, Famiglia Bianchi, Familia Schroeder, Felipe Staiti, Finca El Origen, Flechas de Los Andes, Fabre Montmayou, Fuego Blanco, Hacienda Araucano, Kaiken, Kauzo, Kingston Family Vineyards, Lagarde, La Celia, La Junta, Lamadrid, Lapostolle, Leyda, Los Vascos, Los Toneles, Luca, La Posta, Luigi Bosca, Marcelo Pelleriti, Masi Tupungato, Matetic, Mascota Vineyards, Montes, Monteviejo, Morandé, Nieto, Senetiner, Neyen de Apalta, Nina San Huberto, Odfjell, Pascual Toso, Piattelli Vineyards, Polkura, Proemio Wines, Pulenta, Quara, Rutini, Salentein, San Pedro, Santa Carolina, Santa Rita, Seña, Serca, Siegel, Sophenia, Susana Balbo Wines, Tapiz, Terrazas de los Andes, Tinto Negro, Trapiche, Tringario, Trivento, Valdivieso, Ventisquero, Vicentin, Vik, Viña Casablanca, Viña Cobos, Viña Marty, Viña Tarapacá, Viu Manent, Zuccardi
