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 ...

"Now" is a provocative marketing term as in "What's the best wine to drink now?" The thing is, with wine, there's a whole lot of "then." And uniquely, with Carmenere, between then and now - nothing.

Santa Cruz, Chile — WINEMAKER Aurelio Montes turns his four-wheel drive up the steep hillside and along the terraced vineyard rows that form a wide bowl around his new winery in Chile’s celebrated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 pinot ...

*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 ...

Here are the panel picks from the 14 Chilean Carmeneres from 2000, 2001 and 2002 tasted for today.. Comments: Coffee, chocolate, dried meat, tobacco leaf, shoe polish and creosote nose; flavors of ...

As far as obscure grape varieties go, Carménère is likely way up the list for all but the most geeky wine lovers. Carménère is a red variety that originated in France’s famed Bordeaux region. A ...