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A woman checks the properties of a wine in the Casa Blanca valley, some 50 km west from Santiago, on March 19, 2009. The Grape Harvest Festival began in March in many vineyards, where the white stocks like Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc are the first to be harvested, followed by the red ones like Syrah, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and ending with the Carmenere, which is said to be Chile's emblematic stock, after phylloxera made it disappear from France, the only other country in which such stock existed.
