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My Chilean Wine Odyssey: A Week Touring the Wine Country of Chile

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This book, which I stumbled across when looking for info about Chile to prepare for my upcoming trip there, is a nice little read. There are no dramatic insights or presumptuous prose, just a narrative of the author's trip with lots of little details to give you a flavor of what his one-week wine tour with the Morande winery company was like. Recommended reading if you're planning to go to the Santiago area, or considering such a trip.

This book is a thorough disappointment. The author visited one winery in Chile. He has no background in evaluating wine, he gives no description of the overall industry or wine regions of Chile, and no real discussion of Chilean wines. Given this lack of substance you might expect at least a charming travelogue. But alas, to add insult to injury, this journal reads like a high schooler's first trip, complete with descriptions of parking at O'Hare, hotel gym facilities, etc. It is hard to understand how this book got published.

This book contains very little information on Chilean wines and not enough insight into Chilean culture. I don't want to call the author racist but I got the impression that he views Chileans as second class people. Like it was so much for him to ACTUALLY consider THESE people his friends.

I was also shocked when I opened the book and found it to be published in double space format, not very professional at all.

It took me one night to read John's narrative about his adventures touring the wine country of Chile-- what a quick and entertaining read! I read it prior to my trip down to Chile and it deeply enhanced my experience: his depictions of Santiago, the wine country, the culture, and the peoople were so vivid that I felt like I had already been there when I got there. His journal entries capture his precise thoughts and enable the reader to relate to him on many different levels. I thought the book was, in a word, fantastic!

As a wine enthusiast and avid traveler, I bought this book on a whim and found it thoroughly entertaining. It has inspired the possibility of a trip of my own to Chile, a place I had not considered I would ever go.

The senses are engaged at every step of this midwestern wine enthusiast's first trip to mysterious Chile. What he found was that wine making in Chile is not so much different than wine making in the U.S. But the differences in culture, ah...THAT made the trip. Can you taste it in the wine? You bet. A lovely week's jaunt in a wineland of wonder. Refreshing with a hint of plum.

This was the worst travel book I've read in a long time. Its basically a simple diary of a travel junket sponsored by one of the 2nd tier wineries in Chile. The biggest insight was what the daily meal was.

I've been to Morande myself. I didn't feel the need to write a book about it.

The publisher has my money, so I guess I'm the bigger idiot.