In Reply to: Red Wine Questions posted by JeffMO on July 21, 2003 at 09:11:54:
Chilean wines are very good buys and the better ones are quite nice. My wife and I like Merlots, and we have found the Walnut Crest and Concha y Toro Frontera wines to be very drinkable. The Frontera is lighter and the Walnut Crest has a richer flavor with berry notes. Santa Rita and Santa Carolina also produce some fine reds. Chile also has some nice whites as well.To speed up the "breathing" of your reds, decant from the bottle into a wide mouth carafe or even a pitcher to expose more surface area.
There's a thing about drinking reds at room temperature. This is true, but the room it refers to is one from the 17 or 18 hundreds in a Chateau where the room temp was more like 60 degrees. So a little cooling may be in order. Try it to see. Some modern wines are blended for 70 degree room temperature.
Jerry
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