Merlot vs Carmenere

We had a very interesting discussion on the Colchagua wine tour about the crazy new wine that was discovered in Chile less than 15 years ago. It is actually a very funny story. Chile didn't know that it was the only wine country in the world producing a grape that was otherwise as good as gone, called Carmenere. A French expert came and tasted the red wine that they had been trying to pass off as Merlot, and identified the rare grape. I couldn't agree more with this article on wines in Chile, the Chilean Carmenere is much tastier than the Merlot!