Chile for Penguins
January 25, 2006
March of the PengWines: Antarctica hosts an odd meeting
Excerpt taken from Wine Spectator Online www.winespectator.com. Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2006; Articles & Features- Unfiltered "Wine for a TV star and film noir, minis for models, Chile for penguins and a license for a Reagan." Copyright 2006 Wine Spectator Online.
Normally a guy in a tux asks if you want your wine put on ice. But at a recent tasting, the wine was already on ice while little guys in tuxedos more or less ignored the whole thing. The Antarctic Dream, a luxury liner that ferries tourists from Chile to Antarctica and back, recently made a stop at Yankee Harbor, Antarctica, and brought ashore the latest releases of Chilean brand PengWine, a penguin-labeled line produced by American Chris Milliken and Chilean Max Eyzaguirre.
The tasting almost didn't happen, said Milliken. "A few of the bottles, like penguins, didn't fly. The case went crashing to the tarmac before the plane headed to the South of Chile." But the wines that did survive the journey were tasted in the presence of Gentoo, Chinstrap and Adelie penguins, all of which were tending to hatchlings. This probably wasn't the first wine tasting ever held in Antarctica, but it may have been a first for the penguins. Hopefully, a bottle or two was left behind to help them celebrate the arrival of their chicks.
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