Well, until a week or so ago when I was taken aback by a glass of Aves del Sur Estate chardonnay from the Central Valley. It ...

The gift was from two former students. We first tasted Carmenere wines on our trip to Chile in 2009. We were not aware it was grown locally. Carmenere is a very old variety from Bordeaux.

In the 1990s, after Stefano Inama joined his father making white wines at their family winery in northeastern ... Most notably, it was flourishing in Chile, where vintners—who once thought it was ...

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