Wine with Leslie: The three wines from Chile making their debut in Ireland

The wines are only just in the market and I like what I’ve tasted so far.

Chilean wine is still made from ungrafted vines.

My first memory of tasting Chilean wine was in around 1990 in the Atrium of Trinity College at a reception to celebrate the opening of the Finnish embassy. 

I have no idea how I crashed this party given that I was studying English and philosophy and had no diplomatic connections, but somehow myself and a few others found ourselves eating pea soup and drinking shots of Finlandia vodka from bottles encased in three inches of ice.