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- Virginia Stagnari
- "It is perfect that Uruguay be known by the Tannat, although we should promote Merlot a little more"
- Shortly after having introduced Osiris in its versions Tannat and Merlot for its line of premium wines, we visited Antigua Bodega Stagnari and talked with Virginia Stagnari, its Director. A general description of the winery, its future projects, the need for official support, the importance of Wines of Uruguay, the INAVI and the growth of wine tours were the subjects of our talk.
- Andrés Terra
- "Around the world, the wine is sold by the winemakers because nobody can do it better than them"
- By the end of last February the newspapers announced that the historic winery Los Cerros de San Juan, founded 155 years ago, had been auctioned since it could not overcome to debts contracted during the economic crisis in 2002. Six months later, the company whose managements remained, shows a healthy vitality launching new products to the market and renewing its image.
- Pablo Fallabrino
- "Doing technically risky things may result in good findings"
- Their products can only be purchased at the winery, or in New York. Pablo Fallabrino and Mariana Cerutti export all their production from Viñedo de los Vientos to the United States. This winery, even when grounded in the experience and tradition of the Fallabrino family for their wine production, found in Pablo a strong dose of boldness at the time of creating new techniques and flavors to enchant the foreign market.
- Reinaldo De Lucca
- "In Uruguay the big wineries will survive, the small ones, mine included, will gradually disappear"
- The Agronomist and Oenologist Reinaldo De Lucca, as many others in his business, belongs to a third generation of Piemontese immigrants who settled down in the District of Canelones. "El Tano", as everybody knows him, was one of the players in the reconversion of the wine industry in Uruguay 20 years ago, and his winery currently exports fine wine, despite the difficulties that are analyzed one by one in this interview.
- Roberto Bernardi
- "Uruguayans chose Colonia because this year we carried out a strong campaign in the malls of Montevideo"
- Bodegas del Uruguay interviewed Roberto Bernardi, responsible for the marketing of Bernardi winery, a key wine tourism resort in the district of Colonia, who spoke about the recent activities and the future projections in this field, in a year in which the world economic crisis will be the common factor to every commercial activity.
- Miguel Brascó
- "Wood does not add much to any wine"
- The always unforeseen argentine sybarite, unavoidable reference at the time of speaking about wines in his country, talked with Bodegas del Uruguay about Uruguayan wines and, by the way, demolished one of the most sacred myths of enology: the ageing in wood.
- Juan Andrés Marichal
- "Without the crisis we might have grown more, but anyway, we grew"
- First it was the drought and then the rain, which altered the normal cycle of vines, and harvest came before it was planned. We visited Bodega Marichal e Hijos by the end of January, right on the first day of harvest of the chardonnay clusters for its first sparkling wine, we documented that moment, and afterwards we spoke again with Juan Andrés Marichal -the oenologist of the winery- about this, and about the Fine Wine Hall in Punta del Este and the worldwide economic crisis.
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