There’s roughly 25,000 acres of Carmenere vines planted throughout Chile. However, you can still find a small number of wine producers who make wines with Carmenere grapes in France’s Bordeaux ...

This week, you can learn more about these wines, the history of carmenere grapes, as well as tasting notes for three Chilean carmenere wines. Let me add that you can often find many great Chilean ...

The wine, produced in a dramatic, multilevel winery on an Apalta hillside, is about 70 percent carmenere. The 2009 ($90) is big, ripe and spicy, with black fruit, mocha and orange peel notes. It ...

MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images “Carmenère will be Chile’s flagship variety,” declared Rene Merino, the President of Wines of Chile in 2010. When I heard this, my jaw dropped and my eyes ...

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 ...

Learn about Carménère wine, great expressions of which are produced across Chile. Wines made with Carménère show notes of of brambly berries, herbs, and tobacco.

In 1994, the grape that Chilean growers called Merlot was found to be Carménère, an almost-extinct variety from Bordeaux. Today, it yields a delicious, unique wine.

Chile long has had a reputation as a reliable producer of tasty, affordable cabernet sauvignons and sauvignon blancs, and more recently also for carménère, chardonnay, Bordeaux-style blends and ...

It was in 1990s Chile that some vines, long-mistaken for Merlot, turned out to be Carménère and the grape has since become a signature variety of Chilean wine.

While Chile is considered by many as part of the New World, wine has technically been produced in the South American country since the 1500s, whenSpanish missionaries started cultivating the País ...