Chile has long been a wine producing country since the first European settlers arrived in the mid-16th century. The original vines were brought by Catholic missionaries – of course, they needed wine for sacramental purposes – via Peru, California and directly from Spain. For centuries, Chilean wine was limited to a domestic market due to its poor quality, but in the 1980s, the country’s winemakers began pursuing export markets. They have succeeded in gaining worldwide recognition by producing not…