Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Cathrine Todd is a New York City-based writer who focuses on wine. How Carménère grape varieties got confused with Merlot grapes ...

The music of Nick Lowe and Lyle Lovett. The writer Joe Queenan and Karl Ove Knausgaard. "Billy Madison," "Happy Gilmore" and several other early, Adam Sandler movies Chilean wines made with Carmenere ...

A good wine should have a good back story. Carmenere has one, and it’s worth hearing. Back in the 1990s, grape growers in Chile puzzled over why some of the vines in their merlot vineyards got ripe so ...

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 rediscovered. Most ...

Sign up to get the best of Boston, every day. A show of hands, please: How many of you have ever heard of the carmenère grape? Sir, in the back, I see both of your ...

Some wines and grapes are like Rodney Dangerfield. They get no respect. Think Pinot Grigio or certain Rose wines. Other wines are more like Emma Stone or Ewan McGregor. Actors who seem to be ...

THE first “exotic” grape variety I tasted was Carmenere — and I wasn’t impressed. It was around 1997, and all the talk was of this wonderful “new” varietal from Chile. The Irish Sun’s wine aficionado ...

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 ...

In Tipping's Tipples this week, Mike Tipping is sniffing tomatoes as he finds much to enjoy in the carmenère grape from Chile. Sometimes there is a distinct flavour or aroma in a wine that is hard to ...

Carménère is one of the oldest noble grape varieties and it used to be widely planted in Bordeaux, where it produced dark, red wines. When the root-louse phylloxera wiped out many European vineyards ...