After Fires, Chile Rebuilds Devastated Wine Regions

May 30, 2017

(WineSpectator) - Some producers were lucky, others less so. How will the blazes impact this year's harvest and the future?

Chile suffered some of the worst wildfires in the nation's history earlier this year, with dozens of blazes ripping across hundreds of thousands of acres in the country's Central Valley. Eleven people were killed, dozens injured and thousands displaced.

While the fires mostly burned pine forests, more than 100 vineyards were damaged or destroyed by the flames, mainly in the Maule and O'Higgins regions. Since then, the country's wine industry has harvested the 2017 crop. The fire's impact on this vintage and those to come is yet to be determined.


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