"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 ...

It's a lovely Chilean red and it's not Merlot. WSJ's Lettie Teague and Tanya Rivero look at the mystique of the Carmenere grape, which wine lovers are rediscovering. Photo: Getty A FRIEND OF MINE ...

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 ...

“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 widened in disbelief. What?

The thing is, with wine, there's a whole lot of "then." And uniquely, with Carmenere, between then and now - nothing. As a wine, Carmenere (pronounced CAR-men-NAIR) is Chile's signature red ...

Two red grapes from Chile that I find really interesting are varieties that, like cabernet, start with a C: carmenere and carignan. Carmenere is, in a way, Chile’s signature grape. It didn’t ...

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 ...

Since the lost Carménère grape was rediscovered in the vineyards of Viña Carmen three decades ago, Chile’s first wine producer has become a leader in crafting high-quality Carménère wines, especially ...