Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to Food & Wine, and his first book, Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is ...

“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?! This herbal, ...

How Carménère grape varieties got confused with Merlot grapes in Chile is a mystery to one of the most celebrated winemakers of that country, Marcelo Papa - who oversees Casillero del Diablo and ...

Bordeaux variety and Chile’s emblematic grape, Carmenère, seems to have found a new home in Napa, where it’s thriving in the increasingly hot and dry conditions. Quintessa in Napa According to Rebekah ...

Often misunderstood, and tricky to make consistently good wine from, the Carmenère grape is one that Chilean producers have taken to their hearts, as Viña Santa Rita’s Sebastián Labbé told Patrick ...

You may taste many things in a sip of red wine: a panoply of fruit flavors, earth or minerals, spicy wood, even the cleansing astringency of tannin. In a wine made from carmenere, a red grape born in ...

For many people, merlot is a go-to wine choice, but for something new, look for a bottle of this underrated wine so similar ...

Carménère is to Chile what Malbec is to Argentina: an emblematic red variety that originated in Europe, but has since become synonymous with the South American country that is the largest producer ...

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 ...

When the phylloxera root louse began devastating French vineyards in the late 19th century, many suddenly idled Bordeaux winemakers bailed for Chile. They became, in a sense, the founding fathers of ...

The grape Carmenere presents a bit of a conundrum. A relatively obscure variety, it is becoming better known - at least in Chile, where it has found a welcome home. More Carmenere, one of Bordeaux's ...