This week the Cork Guy continues his adventure in discovering the six sisters that traditionally make up the Bordeaux or Meritage blends. This is the third varietal with an origin in France, but, like ...

One grape earned its name for how its vine looks in the fall: carmenere. Grape leaves don’t turn colors the way the leaves of the maple or oak tree does. That makes carmenere unique in the wine world.

Over the years we have expressed our bias against carmenere, a grape variety once popular in Bordeaux but now grown almost exclusively in Chile. The commercially produced wines we tasted then just ...

Chilean wines are often overshadowed by wines from their next-door neighbor, Argentina. And for those who have tried wines from Chile, most people have probably only had cabernet sauvignons from this ...

A good wine should have a good back story. Carmenere has one, and it’s worth hearing. Back in the 1990s, grape growers in Chile puzzled over why some of the vines in their merlot vineyards got ripe so ...

In the glass: This Tacora wine is a deep, dense blood-red color with an opaque core going out into a fine crimson to slightly tinged rim definition with high viscosity. On the nose: It has immediate ...

A century and a half ago, the Carmenére grape was one of the most common Bordeaux grapes in France. And then a disease essentially wiped it out. So how did it recently reemerge in Chile? In response ...

Since vines have been cultivated for winemaking for thousands of years, you might assume that we've identified all of the world's outstanding grape varieties. We have not, and my guess is that we're ...

November 24 th —Thanksgiving Day—is also International Carménère Day. Created in 2014, this festival originally celebrated the 20 th anniversary of a grape that was ‘lost,’ then rediscovered. Most ...

It's a lovely Chilean red and it's not Merlot. WSJ's Lettie Teague and Tanya Rivero look at the mystique of the Carmenere grape, which wine lovers are rediscovering. Photo: Getty A FRIEND OF MINE ...

Carménère is one of the oldest noble grape varieties and it used to be widely planted in Bordeaux, where it produced dark, red wines. When the root-louse phylloxera wiped out many European vineyards ...