Chile

Chile is a country of meagre width and impressive length wedged between the Andes Mountain Range to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. As such, it measures an average of 175 km / 109 mi wide, and 4,500 km / 2,800 mi long. But even that understates how narrow the country is! The fact is that those mountains that run along the border with Argentina, occupy one third of the width!

Most Chileans live in the Central Valley, a fertile and narrow area that runs along a smaller range of mountains in the coast, known as the Coastal Range.  This is also the ‘Wine Country’.

To the North, you’ll find one of the driest deserts of the world, the Atacama. To the south, the Patagonia, a cold and wet jungle of Rain Forest cut by fiords and channels, and inhabited by only by a few.

Some people think Chileans are shy and islanders. The truth is, Chileans are passionate people that speak quietly and work hard. This passion is apparent in the winemaking!