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 ...

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 ...

Price: $9.99 per bottle. Availability: All wine and grocery stores In the glass: This MontGras wine is a deep dense blood red color with an opaque core going out into a fine crimson to slightly tinged ...

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 ...

Happy spring! It's the perfect time to talk about rebirth and rediscovery, and the wine I'm discussing this week is the poster child. Recap from last column: The red grape called Carménère (which ...

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 ...

When any wine area is establishing itself on an international stage, it helps to be able to rely on a single grape variety, at least in the beginning. In New Zealand, for example, that was sauvignon ...

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: Panilonco wine is a deep ruby-red color with a firm semi-opaque core going out into a fine pinkish-red rim definition with medium-high viscosity. On the nose: This wine is like the ...