What you need to know about Chilean wine

In the wine world, "Chilean" used to be code for "good everyday wines for a steal." They weren't wines that, after a first sip made people go, "Dios mio, nothing will ever be the same from this moment forward!" But they were wines that halfway through a bottle made people go, "I would have gladly paid much more than $7 for this wine. Let's go back to the store and stock up."

Things have changed since then _ since 20 or 30 years ago _ and a lot of the changes