Chile has long been a source of good value wines, mostly a variety of French-origin grapes. But over the past 30 years, a ...

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 the 1990s, after Stefano Inama joined his father making white wines at their family winery in northeastern Italy, a friend poured him three glasses of red wine. “The wines were very good,” Inama ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Certified sommelier, Adam Knoerzer, introduced us to a wine that also has quite the backstory, Carménère. Judge awards $6.6 million to whistleblowers who reported Texas Attorney General Ken ...