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 ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Carménère, Chile’s flagship red wine grape, has a great survival story. Although it was once widely planted in the Médoc region ...

One of the oldest wineries in Chile has gained lots of recent acclaim for their dry-farmed, old vine Carmenere wines. ByCathrine Todd, Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert ...

Liberty Lake Wine Cellars uncorked a big score recently as Wine Enthusiast magazine gave the local winery’s 2020 carménère a rating of 93 points, which is the top in North America and the ...

Historically, the grape variety carménère has had an identity crisis like no other. Bordeaux wine producers abandoned it. Chileans confused it with merlot and the Italians thought it was cabernet ...

Chile has long been a source of good value wines, mostly a variety of French-origin grapes. But over the past 30 years, a previously little-known grape, carménère, has become widely considered Chile’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are several reasons why some people may dislike the Carmenère 2024 from DO Peumo, despite its many qualities. While it’s a wine that many find compelling, there are certain characteristics of ...