23-11-2025 06:00
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From Bordeaux to Chile: Celebrating a 'happy accident' this International Carmenère Day
Originating in Bordeaux’s Médoc, Carmenère didn’t exactly move to Chile to seek its fortune, but a ‘happy accident’ led to the rise of the country’s flagship red grape.
Thought of, to a certain extent as a difficult variety – slow ripening and prone to disease – it was more or less abandoned in Bordeaux after phylloxera ravaged Europe’s vineyards in the late nineteenth century.
Fast forward to Chile in 1994 when a variety that had bee
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Thought of, to a certain extent as a difficult variety – slow ripening and prone to disease – it was more or less abandoned in Bordeaux after phylloxera ravaged Europe’s vineyards in the late nineteenth century.
Fast forward to Chile in 1994 when a variety that had bee