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Chilean Challenge

By Neil Pendock | 25 October 2007

In his introduction to The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (Everyman’s Library, 2005) Christopher Hitchens calls Chile “a country shaped like a long, thin jagged blade, forming the littoral of almost an entire continent, and poised to crumble into the ocean leaving only the Andes behind. A place of earthquakes, wine and poets, like some Antarctic Aegean.” And Chris wasn’t too far off the mark with his Macbeth dagger analogy – Chilean wine is set to overtake SA in the all-important UK export market thanks to a 26% volume increase this year. Read More…