Chile - Principal Wine Regions - Coquimbo
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Coquimbo wine region Chile
- Most northerly
- Elqui
- Limari
- Choapa
- low latitude > hot summers and intense sunlight
- cooling influence Pacific Ocean essential
- Humboldt Current
- morning fogs and cooling breezes
- 100 mm rainfall/y > irrigation needed > Andes (though less snow - less water nowadays)
Elqui Valley in Coquimbo, Chile
- Northernmost of Chile's wine regions
- follows River Elqui from Andes to coast
- lack of coastal mountains - route river > fog can reach further inland
- Chile's highest vineyards (up to 2.200 m)
- Syrah (and other Rhône varieties) and SB
Limari in Coquimbo, Chile
- 100 km south of Elqui
- Limari river
- narrow, steeply- sided valley though coastal mountains
- west cooled by morning fog and cool breezes
- unusual for Chile > pockets of calcareous soils
- > Chardonnay
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