MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
“Chile Day” in London underlines the very close links with the UK
Chilean authorities and business people opened the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday as part of the “Chile Day 2014” which is the country's foremost promotion event abroad for the financial and business sectors. UK Foreign Office Minister of State for Latin America Hugo Swire underlined that Chile in “a key partner in the region”. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI do my bit by buying Chilean wine !
Oct 15th, 2014 - 09:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0clyde
Oct 15th, 2014 - 12:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0well, you shouldn´t.
try with any argentinian premium wine instead, and you will never buy that chilean brew again.
Great for Chile,
Oct 15th, 2014 - 12:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another nail for Argentina..
Chile and Argentina ! Casablanca Valley nectar vs Medoza dishwater, no contest. British tourists always get a warm welcome in Chile vs burning tyres, rocks and attempted intimidation in Argentina. So, no contest Chilean wine in my wine racks and Chile the preferred SAm destination for a pleasant break. Boloudos please note. Looks like trade will continue to grow as well as friendship and cooperation. They may make conciliatory statements to keep their bonkers neighbour subdued but they obviously don't mean it by locating this event in the worlds leading financial location and the worlds greatest city.
Oct 15th, 2014 - 02:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Communist swindlers. They've scared the businesses and middle class, with the peso pretty much in freefall they jet off to london to shake down people that don't speak spanish and don't know thatcher's history with this crew.
Oct 15th, 2014 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0not a surprise some boludous here don´t know a shite about wines.
Oct 15th, 2014 - 04:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but, are they french, spanish, italian or argentinian?
no?
then, why would they know?
what it is a surprise is that many of them still think that trading with the uk is big news.
well, no you nabous.
trading with china, india or brazil is great news.
#2
Oct 15th, 2014 - 05:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why should I support Argentinian wines in preference to Chilean wines ?
I have tried some ARGENTINIAN wines in the past in the same price range as Chilean wines, I preferred the Chilean ones as they suited my taste. It does not mean that they are any better but that I preferred them.
Anyway, Argentinean wines are scare on the supermarket shelves.
Obviously the buyers get a better deal from Chile. However, I will try wine from almost anywhere. I usually end up buying Australian or S. African wines as they are to my taste.
trading with china, india or brazil is great news
Oct 15th, 2014 - 05:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0YES,
But not for broke corrupt bankrupt CFK...lol
I've only tried RG wine once and it tasted dirty.
Oct 15th, 2014 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Poor Argentina, Chile gets an invite to the British Foreign office and the red carpet rolled out and an entire day named after them in one of the worlds two Alpha ++ cities and all Argentina gets is summoned.
Oct 15th, 2014 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There are a lot of states in the U.S. that Argentine wineries can no longer ship to due to a change in the law. I use a wine merchant in Mendoza and received an email explaining this, though I live in the U.K. I like the wines I ship from Argentina but buy far more from South Africa and Chile because they are better value for the quality. As any wine maker will tell you, the best wine is the one you like.
Oct 15th, 2014 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“the best wine is the one you like.”
Oct 15th, 2014 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0no.
if you cannot appreciate the basic features of a good wine (sweetness/ dryness, acidity, tannin, fruit and body) you´d better try with another beverage.
12 whining nino
Oct 15th, 2014 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0listen to the boy psuedo wine snob giving us the benefit of his vast experience.
Elaine, like many other informed and experienced wine lovers, is politely telling you that she prefers Chilean wines or others, because Argentine wines are not worth the money - there is better elsewhere.
Voting with their palates and fortunate to have a variety of choices. Do you?
Thats rhetorical - you can lie to us, but not yourself.
BTW, your government isa doing your wne industry no favours.
Crashing Peso - cost of supplies UP, returns are down as they try to compete on price.
Its nice that you are so patriotic, though. *pats Troll on head*
#12
Oct 15th, 2014 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Some people like dry wines, some like sweet, some do not like red wines because the tannin disagrees with their metabolism. People have different tastes, most people like cucumbers and say it has a delicate taste. To me it overpowers anything else served with it. It has an overpowering metallic taste.
That's just because of the reaction to my taste buds.
It's the same with some red wines. I can detect ,to me, unpleasant flavours that others don't notice. I have had some tastings of really expensive“great wines”
which I didn't like. I have met a few wine ”experts in my time who chose the wine for the label and in blind testings got it wrong on occasions.
Same with whisky, it's full of bullshitters waxing lyrical. I knew the chief blender at Johnny Walkers and saw him regularly when I worked there.
He could tell you a bad whisky but his advice was if you like it and it suits your palate that's the best one.
toy
Oct 15th, 2014 - 10:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0of course i am almost an expert, like any other argentinian, french, spanish or italian with good taste for wine.
that is another advantage of being born in a country where there is a culture for cuisine et vins.
england and the islets on the other hand...
and do not mix politics with this issue, you nabou triste.
clyde
agree that the price has nothing to do with the quality in many cases.
now, to tell that all the argentine wines are like dishwater as that moron @4 said, is nonsense.
surely the poor thing never tasted an alta vista terroir, andeluna, etc.
anyway, listening to those morons criticizing argentine wines is like an argentine criticizing scotch whiskies.
the scottish are the ones who know about that matter.
Whiner
Oct 16th, 2014 - 03:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just “being Argentine” does not make you an expert.
That usually takes intellect, education, and experience, rather than arrogance and ego.
“Viva Argentina ”, if that makes you feel better.
Minister Swire should be glad there is no “Argentina day”, and there will NEVER be, as friendly relations between us will never again reoccur.
Oct 16th, 2014 - 03:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0I mean think about it. What would be left for Swire to say? Let's imagine a Mercopress article here:
”The minister also pointed out to the excellent relationship and friendship between the UK and Argentina that can be traced back to sending you John Whitelocke in our attempted invasion, subjugation, and extermination of your incipient nation two centuries ago and mentioned some facts supporting those links (a prior attempted invasion in 1806, an attempted blockade in 1819, meddling in the Cisplatine War, our attempt to take away your territories and rivers in 1845 alongside the French, our attempts to ban you from Antarctica, our efforts to undermine your economy, etc, etc)...”
Doesn't sound that cool, does it.
Always the victim.
Oct 16th, 2014 - 03:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0WHINE whine whine,
Oct 16th, 2014 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0that's all its worth, ..
Only absolute imbeciles like the last two posters would say that stating the obvious (history itself), is whinging. Yet THEY bleet, whinge, moan, howl, bewail, and ululate non-stop about the Falklands War which happened almost 40 years ago, and they won actually. Imagine if they had lost!!!
Oct 16th, 2014 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yet Argentina cannot point out that it is Britain tha has always been the aggressor in all hostilities and belligerent incidents before that one???
Utter Rubbish.
Oct 16th, 2014 - 06:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Always the whinging victim.
Oct 16th, 2014 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And with responses like that you have the gall to state “I am an intelligent poster.”
Oct 17th, 2014 - 02:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0#20
Oct 17th, 2014 - 12:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Imagine if they had lost!!!
NO CHANCE !
Ululating is not a British method of expressing either joy or sorrow.
I do recognise bleet, whinge, moan, howl, bewail, as Argentinian characteristics
as can be demonstrated in B.A. before/after the Falkland's war.
See youtube
23'I am an intelligent poster
Oct 17th, 2014 - 12:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yep,
exactly what robot stated,
how we all wished we was as intelligent argie educated as you....twit twat..
he hasn't been around for a while (nostrils), must be that choice between food and internet. Or some one stole his meds......
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