BellaOnline Forums Food and Wine Wine What is Carmenere Wine?

I�m not a mind-reader but I�m guessing that few of you will have drunk Carm�n�re (car-men-air-rare), and those that have bought it recently and the wine came from Chile. Let me explain: Carm�n�re wine has only been available for the past decade and virtually all of it is grown in Chile. Yet this isn�t some new grape variety, it has been around for ever and neither is it indigenous to South America.

And here�s a twist: if you were enjoying Chilean Merlot in the 1980�s and 90�s then there is a good chance what was in the bottle was really Carm�n�re. It is an ancient variety that was mistaken for Merlot and forgotten.

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Peter, thanks for the info

Merlot is my favorite wine. I love it so much, I tell my husband that God created it just for me. I have never heard of Carm�n�re wine, but will definitely try it if I run across it. Since I live in one of the few remaining dry counties, there is a very slight chance of that.

Given a really interesting stuff and i also heard about carmenere and woud surely try to search it in the wineries .

I got the carmenere stuff. the carmenere is a grape variety and used mainly in the france .

Which Carmemere did you get?

In my article it says the variety is mostly grown in Chile and I have not come across a French varietal Carmenere so I'm interested in what you found.