One of South America?s most important wine-producing countries, Chile is a reliable source of both budget-friendly wines and premium bottlings. Spanish settlers, Juan Jufre and Diego Garcia de C?ceres, most likely brought Vitis vinifera (Europe?s wine producing vine species) to the Central Valley of Chile some time in the 1550s. But Chile?s modern wine industry is largely the result of heavy investment from the 1990s.