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.

Carmenere grapes are a cross between Cabernet Franc and rare grape called Gros Cabernet, according to “Wine Grapes” by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding and Jose Vouillamoz.

"Carmenère could be Chile's malbec," Peter Axelsen said the other day in the offices of Prestige Wine Cellars. If that sounds a bit like wine-geek gobbledygook, let me translate. Malbec, one of ...

Carmenere grapes are a cross between cabernet franc and a less well-known grape called gros cabernet, according to “Wine Grapes” by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding and Jose Vouillamoz.

Joaquin Hidalgo, perhaps the most-respected wine critic in Chile, recently led a group of wine writers through six carmenere wines that literally shocked us. I expected to find the same overly ...

As a wine, Carmenere (pronounced CAR-men-NAIR) is Chile's signature red, attracting international attention for plush tannin and robust flavors combining ripe, dark fruits and green pepper.

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 ...

Chile's fledgling wine industry, however, benefited from an influx of suddenly out-of-work French winemakers, and still continues to cultivate many pre-phylloxera clones; today, wines from 150 ...

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 ...