Charif Christian Carvajal, marketing director of Europe and Asia regions of ASOEX, said: “Each season, Chilean farmers are introducing new seeded and seedless varieties from top global breeders. Grapes are a source of polyphenols, such as resveratrol, along with vitamin K, copper and various B vitamins.”

Juan Jose Vidal Wood, Trade Commissioner at the Shanghai office of ProChile, said: “We call Chile a ‘phytosanitary island’ due to the high mountains of Patagonia to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west, which have blocked the arrival of many of the pests and pathogens that exist in other grape growing regions around the world.