According to Daily Mail, the town of Zapallar’s landscape is lined with lush green vines planted in perfectly dried and cracked soil which studded with rocks. The scattered grass growing between the rows seemed strategically placed to look like a bed of straw.
However, because of the northern Chile’s dry climate, cactuses are also growing amidst the vines, but with the help of drip irrigation, the vineyard copes with the hot weather. Zapallar is known as Aconcagua Valley’s wine region, where Viña Montes cultured …show more content…
“The soil here is a mix of clay and granite,” Gutierrez added.
“There's cooler climate from the coastal influence. The water shortage naturally controls the rigour of the vines so it's perfect for white wines and cool climate red wines,” he continued.
Buenos Aires Herald reported the world’s fourth largest wine producer is facing a problem with climate change. The vintners revealed that their vineyards are being destroyed by rising temperatures and unpredictable rains.
Wine merchants are looking for another way to save their crops, while some even uproot their wineries to move to a much cooler and wetter place in the south are before the quality of their grapes wither. Winemaking has been the bread and butter of the many in Chile and has been started since the arrival of the first conquistadores for about four and a half centuries ago.
“If temperatures keep rising, maintaining current grape varieties and improving quality in Chile is going to become increasingly difficult,” Miguel Torres, president of the Namesake Company and owner of about 400 hectares of vineyards in the country,