Rosa Ponce, a tall woman in a button-down jean shirt and long pants, her blonde hair piled under a bandana, squints into the sun as she examines a grape vine

Vina Concha & Toro (CONCHA) SA's effort to reduce its reliance on Europe is helping the maker of Casillero del Diablo merlot rebound from its cheapest valuations in eight years as analysts predict the stock will outperform peers.

Chile's main obstacle to being taken seriously as a fine wine producer is not quality but rather its limited track record, believes Justerini & Brooks' buying director Giles Burke-Gaffney.

Being able to compare your wine grapes with those from the best growing regions in the world could be just a zap of a machine away.

Concha y Toro Winery (NYSE:VCO) has been upgraded by TheStreet Ratings from hold to buy.

Leading Chilean organic and biodynamic producer Emiliana is relaunching its Signos de Origen range after switching to vinification in "concrete eggs".

As latest export figures show a tough start to the year for Chile, many producers still believe an extensive vineyard planting programme is vital if the country is to meet future demand for its wines.

Chile's leading premium wine producer lends "angel" iconography to its fundraising campaign to promote cystic fibrosis research

At the southern end of Argentina's Uco Valley in the foothills of the Andes, Jose Manuel Ortega Gil-Fournier is helping make investors' dreams of producing wine from their own vineyards come true.

Ms. Claudia Inés Quini from Argentina replaces Mr. Yves Bénard of France as the new President of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV), the intergovernmental UN type organization in the area of vitiviniculture with effect from today as she was elected for a three-year term.

A first look at vintage quality in Argentina and Chile, with eyewitness reports from growers and winemakers

Argentinian producer, O Fournier is to offer 84 investors the chance to buy vineyards plots at its Santa Sofia Estate.

Mysterious and fragrant, torrontes has become Argentina's premier white wine grape varietal. Once thought to be related to a grape of the same name from Galicia, Spain, it has been confirmed that indeed, torrontes is a grape indigenous to Argentina.

Chile's vineyard owners are expecting a slightly different taste and aroma to the wines they produce this year as they harvest grapes during an exceptionally long drought.

Australia's Peter Lehmann Wines have switched distribution from Enotria to Hallgarten Druitt.

A British winemaker has finally been given official approval to release a limited-edition wine made in collaboration with Malbec grape growers in Argentina, on one condition: It can't sell the wine, or label it a Malbec. Actually, it can't even call it wine at all.

O. Fournier, the high-end Spanish-Chilean-Argentinian venture, has earmarked 140ha of vines in Mendoza to be sold to private individuals in small plots.

Brazil is considering raising the tariff on wine imports to protect its domestic wine industry.

Wines of Argentina is celebrating the approach of the second Malbec World Day with the launch of the first Argentine Malbec made in the UK.

Chilean wines are growing fast in the independent sector - having displaced Italy from fourth place by volume - they now have a 10% share of that market.