{"id":18617,"date":"2014-06-14T18:55:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T22:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=18617"},"modified":"2014-10-27T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T18:43:46","slug":"carmenere-wine-best-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/carmenere-wine-best-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Best Carmen\u00e8re Wines to Buy Now + 5 Surprising Facts about Carmen\u00e8re"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"decant<\/a>Carmen\u00e8re is most widely planted in Chile, however,\u00a0Carmen\u00e8re did not get its start in Chile. You\u2019ll find my\u00a0Top 10<\/strong> Carmen\u00e8re reviews and ratings here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

5 Surprising Facts about Carmen\u00e8re:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Carmen\u00e8re originated in the Medoc region of Bordeaux, France. \"Montes<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Used in France initially as a blending wine, or to produce deep dark wines, it disappeared from Europe in the mid 19th Century and showed up in Chile a hundred years later and has since become Chile\u2019s premium grape.<\/p>\n

3. Carmen\u00e8re<\/strong><\/a>, a member of the Cabernet family of grapes, is the French word for Crimson (carmin), and is known as the deepest and darkest of red wine grape.<\/p>\n

4. Carmenere needs lots of sunshine, warm summers and a long growing season to ripen.\u00a0 It has been able to achieve this in Chile and therefore Chile has been able to produce some great wines that are rich in berry fruits and spice, such as blackberries and black pepper, recognizable for their rich intense color, smooth soft tannins and restrained acidity.<\/p>\n

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5. Carmen\u00e8re offers aromas of dark fruits, chocolate and coffee.\u00a0 On the palate, Carmen\u00e8re<\/strong><\/a> has flavors of blackberries, chocolate, tobacco, leather, smoky cherries and spice.<\/p>\n

Carmen\u00e8re is a soft spicy red wine that pairs very well with spicy red meats.\u00a0 It can also hold its own with tomato-based dishes as well as curried dishes.\u00a0 Carmen\u00e8re will also pair well with dark chocolate.<\/p>\n

When you join our wine community as a Paid Member<\/strong><\/a>, you\u2019ll get access to all of my Carmen\u00e8re wine reviews, which are updated weekly.<\/p>\n

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Carmen\u00e8re is most widely planted in Chile, however,\u00a0Carmen\u00e8re did not get its start in Chile. You\u2019ll find my\u00a0Top 10 Carmen\u00e8re reviews and ratings here. 5 Surprising Facts about Carmen\u00e8re: 1. Carmen\u00e8re originated in the Medoc region of Bordeaux, France. 2. Used in France initially as a blending wine, or to produce deep dark wines, it disappeared from Europe in the mid 19th Century and showed up in Chile a hundred years later and has since become Chile\u2019s premium grape. 3. Carmen\u00e8re, a member of the Cabernet family of grapes, is the French word for Crimson (carmin), and is known as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,375,392,482,483,484,485,486,487,492,846,293,348,12,319,372,29,1155,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-wines","category-bordeaux-wine","category-carmenere","category-carmenere-2009","category-carmenere-2010","category-carmenere-2011","category-carmenere-2012","category-carmenere-2013","category-carmenere-2014","category-carmenere-wine","category-carmenere-blend-carmenere","category-chile-wine","category-french-wine","category-grapes-regions","category-learn-wine","category-red-wine","category-taste-wine","category-best-wine-review-top","category-wine-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18617"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19611,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617\/revisions\/19611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}