As a grape, Carmenere is French (pronounced CAR-men-NYAIR), originally part of the famed Bordeaux region's grape blend. Then, in the late 1800s, after the phylloxera blight decimated France's ...

The Grape Glossary: A guide to hip varietals. When the phylloxera root louse began devastating French vineyards in the late 19th century, many suddenly idled Bordeaux winemakers bailed for Chile.

As this effort was underway, French ampelographer Jean-Michel Boursiquot was brought to Chile as a consultant, and it was he who recognized Carmenere for what it truly was. Boursiquot's ...

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 ...

A century and a half ago, the Carmenére grape was one of the most common Bordeaux grapes in France. And then a disease essentially wiped it out. So how did it recently reemerge in Chile?

Wine is a worldwide phenomenon: Sauvignon blanc thrives in New Zealand; French carmenere is equally at home in Chile and Italy; and that “all-American” grape, zinfandel, has Croatian roots. So ...

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 ...

Wine is a worldwide phenomenon: Sauvignon blanc thrives in New Zealand; French carmenere is equally at home in Chile and Italy; and that "all-American" grape, zinfandel, has Croatian roots.

"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 ...