Goodbye Chile’s wine business

January 20th, 2010 by Dr. Horowitz

Thanks so much to everyone who was a part of The Global Wine Industry’s study abroad class–students, planners, guides, and hosts.

Chile’s wine industry has proven it’s ability to make world-class wines.  The Internet is changing how wineries are communicating with customers, and while Chile has thought of itself as an isolated island, these are exciting times in the wine industry because now anyone can connect to a Chilean winery through a Google search or through social network word of mouth.  It’s exciting to see Wines of Chile and Movi creating digital content.  It will be more exciting to see individual wineries and writers start to do the same with WordPress, twitter, iTunes, or whatever.  Thank you everyone on our itinerary for teaching us about your part in Chile’s wine industry.

The Austral Group put together a great itinerary for us again.  Thank you Lloyd, Maricruz, Adrian, and everyone else.

Claudia Olmedo (facebook) was an amazing guide/sommelier again.  Thank you Claudia.

Thank you students.  I hope this trip/class motivated you in some way.  Use that motivation to do whatever it is you want to do now…don’t wait.

http://Chile2010cs.blogspot.com Nice pictures at Kross in your post Chris.  What’s up with the video in your Day 6 post?  It’s not loading.  Let me know if I can help.  Thanks for adding the pictures to the flickr group.

http://crobitaille.wordpress.com/ http://socalwine.tumblr.com/ Thanks Chris and Richard.  Nice picture on the beach with the horseback carabineros.

http://marvelousnarwhal.tumblr.com/ Good to hear you were inspired Eric.

http://chillwine.tumblr.com/ Thanks for not getting hurt Mike.

http://chouder.tumblr.com/ Thanks for giving this blogging business a go Sam.  Nice work posting so frequently.

http://renitaramos.tumblr.com/ Nice posts on Emiliana and Cousino-Macul Renita.

http://callahae.wordpress.com/ Thanks Erin.

Thank you everyone else whose blogs I haven’t read yet or I can’t find right now.

Blog post link:
http://theglobalwineindustry.com/goodbye-chiles-wine-business/