Remember the Wine of Chile online tasting post I did months ago? No, well, just click here if you missed out on that one. It wasn’t too long after that that I received some free samples (and an offer that I responded to, but somehow lost touch with that person…who was my old WSET...
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Carménère is the star of this tasting and I think she took everyone by surprise, ala Robert Downey Jr. did in Ironman. Of course, you have probably heard the story of this particular grape and how it is called the lost grape of Bordeaux. Blah, blah, blah. It doesn’t matter and if it really...
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Carmen who? You know what, I’m wasn’t really sure how to pronounce it either, so I Googled it. Well, that didn’t really help since there were multiple answers. So, I reached out to a recently made acquaintance who I thought would know and turns out, the correct pronunciation is Car-men-yair (rhymes with hair). Who...
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